the bible
and then opened it and the ferst virse i saw was
this.

by these 3 was the third part of men
killed, by the fire and by the smoak

it was in chapter 9 virse 18 of Revellasions. you
cood have gnocked me down with a fether. i shet
up the book and set down. then i got out the
dicksionery and looked up Revellasions and it sed

revellasions---the ack of disclosing to others
that whitch was ungnew to them.

so what is the use. i wish i was ded.

November 15, 186---the gratest thing has happened.
i feel as if i cood fli to the moon. jest
think i am in my room wateing for father to come
and lick me and i aint wurrid a bit. i have et haff
a mince pye and i never taisted enything so good
in my life befoar. i feel so good that i wood like
to holler. jest think i aint got to go to stait prizon
nor Beany nor Pewt. this morning Pewt and Beany
were faleing verry fast and the last i heard of them
they was setting up in their shirt tales eeting meet
and potatoes and pye and evrything.

well tonite father went out and mother asted
him where he was going and he sed low so i woodent
hear him up to Brads. i heard him and i thougt
sumthing was up. so after he had went out i
folowed on and saw him go into the paint shop.
Pewts father and Beanys father and General Mastin
were there. so i crep up where there was a broaken
winder and lissened. father set down and took out
of his poket, what do you think, the records of
the Terible 3. i was so sirprized that i neerly hollered
but dident. then father sed well gentlemen
i have the infirnalist record of yuthfull depravity i
ever read in my life. and then he read it and evry
time he stoped to breeth old General Mastin wood
slap his gnee and holler god did you ever hear the
like of that, the little devils. and father wood holler
and laff and Pewts father and Beanys father wood
two. then father wood read sum moar and then
he sed i wish i had been a member and i almost sed
you was an onery member but i gnew enuf not to.

bimeby he finished and sed there General did you
ever hear enything like that in your life and General
sed he never did. then father sed he suspecked
us from the ferst and peraps he was as mutch to
blaim as we was becaus he stirred up old Ike and
J. Albert but when the fire come he was wurrid as
the devil althoug he felt sure we hadent done it
he was afrade sum dam fool wood try to lay it
onto us. and the very day of the fire he found