wood tirn out like
him i shood feal like throwing you over the brige
in a bag with rocks in it. think of living a life
without fun. gosh he mite have been a useful cittizen
if he hadent been so cussed good. how ever
i will go up tomorow and chirk him up a little.

when we got home mother and Sarah was setting
up and darning stockings and Sarah sed well George
did you wurry the poar man out of his wits and
father sed piece woman i treeted him with the uttmost
kindness and was a grate cumfort to him.
of coarse i was cairful not to under estimait the
dainger for feer that Ike mite be bold to rashniss
and xpose himself needlessly to dainger. it wasent
verry hard to perswuade him to stay in the house
for a weak or 2. indeed i think i wood have had
to fite hard to get him out. but when i left him i
asured him taht if wirst come to wirst he cood
probly be able to pay his ransum if it wasent moar
than 20 thousand dollers. i thougt he was going
to faint ded away then and i told him with
me and Melander Kize and old Swane and Mizzery
Dugin and old Brown willing ot sackrifise our lifes
for him he needent wurry.

then Aunt Sarah sed and she coodent talk verry
well because she was triing to bite a thred off, i
think i shall go up and tell cussen Isak that you
are jest stirring him up and father sed he will not
beleeve you for i told him the hoal family but me
had tirned agenst him straingly becaus they thougt
he has did sum dredfill thing that wont see the lite
of day and that Harry and I are the only ones
that stand up for him and Aunt Sarah bit off the
thred with a snap and sed George Shute if i cood
beleeve a single wird you say i shood be verry indignent,
and father sed it is harroing to be so
douted and missunderstood by them whitch is deer
to you and he pertended to burst into teers and sed
he wood go to bed and weap his piller sopping wet
and he made up a auful face and winked at mother
and went up stairs and Aunt Sarah sed to mother
what a man he wood have been on the staige. he
wood have beet comical Brown and Artimus Ward
and Joshua Billings all to peaces, and mother she sed
yes he wood but i prefir him jest as he is.

October 29, 186---rany again. it hasent done
enything but rane for 3 weaks. it was so rany
that we coodent put up eny sines or comit eny
crimes. i saw old Filander coming down from Ikes
this morning and when i went to school i say Mary
Isak with all the winders open airing out the hous