ent sed enything about it. i wish i cood be let
alone in chirch.

November 10, 186---Pewt had the docter today.
he had docter Swet. docter Swet thinks Pewt is
thretened with brane feever. father says that cant
be. he sed he shood as soon xpect me to have brane
feever as Pewt. i think peraps we will all feal
better when it is over. what i am afrade of is that
Pewt and Beany may go crasy and say i done it
all. what if they shood. i wood give a milion dollers
if i gnew where them records have went to.

November 11, 186---Beany aint eny better. i went
over today to see him and see what cood be did and
he sed he dident want to see enybudy. i went up to
see Pewt and asted old man Purinton how he was
and he sed he was getting no better verry fast. i
wunder if he has heard enything.

November 12, 186---Pewt aint enny better. Beany
aint et ennything but broth for 2 days. i still eet
to keep up my strenth. i am wurried about them.
if they get two week peraps they will comfes and
say i done it. i hoap they is man enuf to keep
their othes. i am going to keep mine.

i forgot to say wether it was brite or fair or
rainy or enything fer a weak. i dont remember
and i dont cair a dam. there i have sed it.

November 13, 186---father keeps looking at me
quear. i wunder if he suspecks ennything. if i
had only told him he was a onery member peraps
i cood tell him about things without braking my
othe. i bet he wood help us. we have got to have
sum help. it wont do to let Pewt and Beany dy
and leeve me to go to stait prizon alone. if 1 of
has got to go to stait prizon the hoal 3 of us has
got to go. Beany and Pewt aint going to sneek out
of it by dying. that woodent be fair.

November 14, 186---i have gave up haop and
dont cair now. i am only wateing till a poliseman
grabs me. i got licked in school. it dident even
hirt me. it maid me think of sumthing elce but
stait prizon for a few minits. old Francis says i
am getting nummer evry day. he says if i dont
waik up he will have to waik me.

what is the use enyway. last Sunday the minister
sed evrybudy cood get the gratest cumfort from
the bible whatever his truble was. he sed open the
bible and reed the first virse you see and it will
comfort you. so today i saw Celes bible open where
she had left it. she is reeding Isiar. i dident know
eny part of the bible was rote by Isiar. Isiar Hanes
was probably naimed after him, well i thougt i
wood do as the minster sed. so i shet up