wood have done it but not Beany. his face
was all onesided and looked so funny that peeple
coodent help laffin. his face is funy ennyway but
peeple have got used to it when it aint swole up.
Beany woodent have stuck his head out if he had
gnew how he looked. he was not to blaim. so he
wants his gob back and we hoap you wil let him
come back.
Yours very respectively.

well we got a lot of people to sine. Earl and Cutts
and father and Mr. Healy and Pewts father and old
man Dow and evrybody that read the partition sined
it and slaped their leg and laffed. sum of them
roared and sed i gess old Chipper will take notise
of that.

well then we drawed lots to se whitch wood read
the partition to Chipper and i drawed the shortest
one. i always do so i am not sirprized. i am going
up to Chips tomorrow.

July 24. brite and fair. i went up to Chips today.
he was in Boston.

July 25. if we dont have rane before long father
says there wont be ennything to eat nex year. went
up to Chips again today. he hadent got home from
Boston.

July 26, i will never speek to Chipper Burley
again. he has got the wirst temper i ever see. he
gets mad for nothing. i never see such a man, i
went up today. i met 2 or 3 men whitch sined the
partition and they asted me if i had seen Chip and
i sed no and they sed wel go up as soon as you can
so i went up. a servant girl came to the door and
told me Chip, only she sed mister Burley was in the
greenhouse. so i went to the greenhouse and he
was there with mister Busell and mister Alfrid
Coner and old Charles Coner and Joe Hiliard. he
asted me what i wanted and i told him and he
winked at the other men and sed read it and i started
to read it and i had jest got as far as mister Chipper
Burley when he got mad and grabed it and toar it
up and chased me almost down to front streete. i
wish i gnew what he was mad about. i dident do a
thing but jest start to read it. i bet i wont go there
again.

July 27, 186---rany and thunderry. i always
thougt a girl with red hair and frekles wood taist
jest loke dandylions when you bite them. i meen
of course bite the dandylions. i meen when you
kiss the girl. i dont know. some day i am going
to find out.

July 28, 186---i wunder why i wrote what i wrote
yesterday. if i thougt ennybody wood ever read
this diry i wood have toar that out. ennyway that
is what i always thougt. i bet sum of the fellers
know. but i dont. Beany has got his gob back.
they