e.

October 30, 186---cold and windy. all the horse
chesnuts in frunt of Sheriff Odlins place has fell
down and all the fellers is stringing them on strings
and pluging them over the telligraf wires. of coarse
me and Beany and Pewt does it to pass away the
time and devert suspishons. we have got moar
serius things to think about. saw old Filander come
down from Ikes again today and saw Mary Isak
airing out the house again. tonite father went up
again to cumfort Ike. father says that he dont
think Ike cood et along without his sunny precence.

every time father comes home from Ikes he says
Ike sends down town for a man to put on a new
chane or a new lock on the door. father says if he
goes a few moar times he will get him to put iron bars
in the winders. old mother Moulton stays there
days. father says he hasent had so mutch fun sence
he took laffin gas and cleened out docter Johnsons
ofice and throwed docter Johnson out of one winder
and docter Prey out of the other and Gim Melcher
down stairs.

October 31, 186---Hork and Spit both dide today.
give them a big ded rat that old mis Dire
give me. they toar it into bits and et it fir and
all and when i come home from school they was
both ded and all curled up. i asted old mis Dire
how she cougt the rat and she sed she poizened it
with rat poisen only she called it rat poizen. i
told her it killed my horks and she sed she was sorry
but she forgot to tell me. i thougt at ferst that
she done it perpose to pay me for sending her old
cat to Haverhill but i gess she dident. we had a
meating of the Terible 3 today and if she had done
it a perpose we wood have atended to her case even
if she was a woman. while the Terible 3 dont maik
war on wimmen, we dont perpose to have wimmin
maik war on us.

Filander is still at Ikes. tonite we drawed lots
to see witch shood go up with a sine to Biley Tiltons.
i got the shortest straw and had to go. Pewt
had printed a sine whitch sed.

Bewaire the vengunce of the Terible 3
it spairith not the wicked man.
but it strikith in darkniss. Bewair.

when i got up there old Biley was setting by his
door with a gun over his gnees. i sed how do you
do mister Tilton and he sed how do how do. i pertended
i come up to see Luke Mannix but he wasent
to home and i come back. i dident leeve the sine
you bet.

November 1. J. Albert Clark has got a bull dog.
he bougt it of old Mike Casidy. he keeps it to
perteck him from the Terible 3