as getting prety tuckered with pumping and hollering
and throwing water on the flaims and throwing
firniture throug the winders and runing ladders
agenst peeples heads and saving hens by the hine
legs squorking and flaping feerful and wondering
where the Union No 2 and the Fountain No 3 was
and what had become of the feller whitch had went
for the nozzle and hadent come back when it begun
to pour rane and i never gnew it to rane faster and
in a few minits the fire was out. then we was
going to move the thing back but we found that
sum of the firemen had choped hoals in the roof of
the house. the fire hadent got to the house but they
thougt they wood have the hoals reddy for the Union
No 1 and Fountain No 3 and the feller whitch had
went for the nozzle and hadent got back when they
got there. so the house was full of water and sum
of the plastering had fell down on the heads of
the fellers whitch were throwing things throug the
winders and covered them with plaster.

well after the fire was over we went home. father
says they is going to have the best detecktives in
Boston to find out who the Terible 3 is. evrybuddy
says they done it to get even with Ike. father says
they is jest as sure to go stait prizon as he is to get
his breckfast tomorow. i went to bed but dident
sleap a wink i coodent eet eny breckfast this morning.
mother says i must be sick. gosh it is wirse
than being sick.

this morning the Terible 3 had a meating. we desided
to give up the asociasion and to burn the records.
it is a auful thing to have stait prizon stairing
you in the face when you havent done nothing.
we havent done nothing rong but if they find out
who the Terible 3 is we will have to go to stait
prizon. sumbuddy set fire to Ikes house sure. they
wasent eny stove in the barn. if it had started in
the house it mite have cougt from the chimny.

November 6, 186--- things is getting wirse evry
day. i have lost the record of the Terible 3. Pewt
sed he give it to me all rite but when i went to my
desk it was gone. i know it was there 2 days ago.
i hunted evrywhere for it. i asted mother and
aunt Sarah and all of them if enyone had been in
my desk and they all sed no. mother asted me what
i had lost and i told her i had lost a story i had rote
and she sed well you can remember it cant you and
i sed yes but i dont want to wright it again. i have
hunted evrywhere and so has Beany and Pewt. if
enyone has found it our goos is cooked and