went
rite down to old Bill Morrils house and maid so
mutch fuss that Bill promised her a new dress if
she wood shet up and go home. he sed Bill sed he
will never run for selickman again. it keeps him
in hot water all the time. he sed Bill sed if he
hadent agreed to by her a new dress she wood have
drove him into a loonitick assilem.

father he sed it was wirth 25 dollers of enny
mans money to see old Swane and old Dirgin get
it and they hadent enny rite to arest Mike and Bill
and Gimmy Josy whitch wasent doing nothing but
standing round, and wasent drunk enuf to be arested,
and he sed he and Amos Tuck went in and baled
them all out and that was why he was lait. father
sed he wished moar egs had hit the polisemen and
he wished he gnew the fellers whitch throwed the
egs he wood give them 5 dollars.

gosh i wanted to tell him but my othe forbid but
i wish we cood get that 5 dolers. father sed if the
Terible 3 done it they hadent augt to be blaimed
for ennything they had done to old Biley and the
others. then he told me and Keene and Cele to go
to bed and we done it. while i was wrighting i
remembered what father sed about baling out old
Mike and Gimmy Josy and Bill Hartnitt and i hollered
down stairs and sed father how did you go
to wirk to bale out them fellers. and father sed i
used a stomack pump of coarse. how did you
supose i done it, with a dipper. now you go to
bed. so i went back and shet my door.

i tell you father knows how to do things. he
pumped all the rumm out of them fellers and when
they are tride in coart tomorrow and old Swane and
old Mizzery sware that they was drunk the jug will
tell them they is dam liers and a disgraice to the
perfession. i wish i cood go to coart and hear the
jug say that but i supose i have got to go to school.
tomorrow i will wright the report for Pewt to copy
becaus i can spel so mutch beter than Pewt.

October 28, 186---brite and fair. gosh the funniest
thing happened to Pewt and to Beany. when
Pewt got home his father was there and auful mad
because he had got a poper on the coat tale becaus
he was going to a temprunce meating tonite and
was going to set on the platform and Pewts mother
sed it wood be a weak befoar he cood ware that
coat again becaus she wood have to boil it in 2
waters and rince it in and 3 and then dry it and ion
it. so Pewts father coodent set on the platform
at the temprunce meating and he was mad enuf
to lick his grate granfather.

if Pe