no feller can stand. i gess Ed Tole
likes me better than he does Beany but Lizzie dont.
I wood ruther have it the other way. still i am
hoaping. Beany may see sumbody he likes better.
so may she. i hoap it will be me. i forgot to say
that this was sunday. i tride to get father to let
me stay at home to taik cair of the sheep but he
woodent. he staid home himself to look after them.
i dont think that is fair. they was a thunder shower
this afternoon. it was after chirch of coarse. it
was a ripper. it struck a tree up on Coart strete
and split off a big lim. i have to wirk prety hard
cutting grass for them sheep.

August 5, 186---i have to wirk harder than enny
feller i know. all Beany has to do is to split kinlins
and lug in wood and get water from the well with
the old chane and windlas and that is always fun
becaus a feller always splashed the water all over
him and sumtimes the chane brakes and they have to
fish for it with hooks and sumtimes things get in the
well and you cant use the water for a long time and
then Beany has to come over to my house. once a
cat got drownded in Beanys well. Beany cood see
it floating round but me and Beany was mad and
he sed he never wood come over to my house again
or speak to me as long as he lived. so Beany dident
say nothing to his family but kep on luging in pales
of water. bimbye the water began to smel bad and
taist feerful and Beanys father xamined the well
after about a week more and found the old ded cat
and there was a dredful time and Beany got a licking
and had to come over to our house for water
until his well was clened out. ennyway we had made
up. gues what we got mad about. i treted Lizzie
to gibs and Beany got mad and woodent speek to me
or to her. then he bought a prize packige of candy
and got a ring that was wirth a grate deel of money
and gave it to her and now she goes with Beany
and dont speek to me. i am never going with girls
again. ennyway me and Beany are all rite again.

August 6, 186---brite and fair. Pewt is wirking
for his father painting the Academy fence. he says
he gets one dollar and a quarter a day. gosh i wunder
if he does. Beany says Pewt dont get fifty
cents a year. Pewt woodent wirk if he dident get
paid. he always has got money too. so i gess he
gets sum pay. i almost never have enny money
xcept when i let my boat and bisness is poar this
summer. i doant beleve i have ernt 2 dollars this
summer. i think father had aught to pay m