t and piched
into J. Albert dog and you had augt to have saw
that fite. it was a ripper. they stood up and toar
at each others gozzles and rassled and rolled over
in the dirt and bit and shook and knawed each
other. and old Si come out and lammed then with
his cain and swoar at J. Albert and old Shep Hogden
and Gimmy Bedell pulled their tales and hine
legs and throwed water on them and hit them with
brickbats and J. Albert pulled at the chane and
hollered and Lamp Flood was a going to lick J.
Albert who hadent done nothing to him when father
grabed him by the neck and neerly yanked his head
off and throwed him in the guter. bimeby a feller
from Mager Blakes stable told Shep to pull on one
dogs hine leg and Gimmy to pull on the other and
when they had the dogs rite out strate the feller lit
a sulfer match rite under their noses and they let
go prety quick and Shep and Gimmy pulled them
apart. the sulfer maid them choak and they had
to let go to breeth. it was a buly fite and old J.
Albert done well.

i wish you cood have saw old Lamp Flood go
fluking into the guter.

November 2, 186---sunday again. it comes round
prety often i think. Saturday dont seam to come
round as often as sunday. today there was a little. this
morning old J. Albert started to go down stairs
and the bull dog woodent let him. i ges in the
xcitement of the fite and chaising the cats he had
forgot that J. Albert was his master. J. Albert
gnocked on the wall and wanted father to take the
kee and open the door and get the bull dog out,
and father sed are you saif J. Albert where you are
and J. Albert sed yes he cant get me up here but i
dont want to stay here the rest of my life, and father
sed if you are saif you will have to stay there till i
can send down for old Mike to come up. i dont
have eny grate hankering to have a bull dog hanging
to me for the rest of my life eether. so maik yourself
to home and reed a few chapters of the bible for
this is sunday and i gess towerds supper time old
Mike will come up. then J. Albert sed cant you get
a gun and shoot him throug the winder and father
sed it is sunday Albert and i am verry perticler
about using fire arms on this sacrid day but if you
will posess your sole in pashents i will see what can
be did.

So J. Albert shet the window and father told me
to go down and get old Mike and i done it and
Mike come up with me and J. Albert throwed out
the kee and old Mike opened the door and the bull