coodent get ennyone else to taik it. his face
has all gone down so it is not funny enny moar. at
least it is not enny funnier than usual and we are
used to that.

July 29, 186---it was hot as time today. this
afternoon me and Cawcaw Harding went up to the
gravil to go in swiming and jest as we was jest
ready to dive in a cold mist came up and we nearly
froze befoar we cood find our close. i tell you we
dresed prety quick and hipered for home. father
sed it was a sea tirn and sumtimes horses and catel
has been lost and froze to deth by them and i had
beter be cairful about going in swiming when it is
too hot. i never know when father is goking. one
day i asted him what the fellers witch lived in south
America and Africa did for snow-baling and he sed
that the snow was so hot sumtimes that they had to
cool their snowballs befoar they pluged them at
other felers or they wood scald them or burn them
bad. i gnew that father was goking that time but
the nex day in school i read in a school book that a
man once froze water in a red hot cup. so peraps
he wasent goking after all.

July 30 186---i have to cut grass for them sheep
evry day now and it taiks a lot of time when i cood
be fishing. i never see such things to eat. always
baaing for sumthing to eat. today they et a whole
cabbije i hooked out of J. Albert Clarks garden, and
a bushel of grass i cut over by the high school and
sum carots and sum meal and hay and a lot of
potatoe pealings and 2 peaces of lettis and drank haff
a pale of water and tiped over 3 whole pales full.
one is tame and follows me round. that is the old
one. the young one is wild and if i dont look out
wil butt me when i aint looking and where i aint
xpecting it. once she nocked me over and i hit her
with a stick hard. so now when i get in the pen
she gets in the corner. she knows she cant fool
with me. i guess not.

July 31, 186---this morning we heard a awful
baaing in the sheep pen and father called me erly
and we went out. what do you think they was 3
lamns there. 2 was ded. the old sheep the one
that i liked becaus she was tame was the one whitch
lamns was ded. she was runing up and down and
smelling of them and baaing. then she wood waulk
away from them and look round and see if they
was folowing her and when she see that they dident
she wood come back and baa sum more.

father he sed thunder that is too bad we will have
to berry them. i dont want your mother to see
them. it wil