eys and
nose and role over and tare round. people were
running into the yard and mother come out with a
pale of water jest as Sam Dire clim over the fense
with a red hot iron in his pinchers and come taring
up. the dog had scooted for hom howling bludy
murder and when Sam got there he was so xcited he
put the red hot iron on the sheep and set its wool
afire. we wood have had roast lamn for dinner if it
hadent been for mother who throwed her pale of
water part of it on the sheep and part of it on Cele
who got in the way. the funny part of it was that
when we xamined the sheep we found she wasent
hurt mutch. the bull dog had got his teeth partly
in her thick wool and partly in her lether coller. she
was scart about to deth and kep hudling up against
us like a cat. Keene she sed she saw the whole of
it. the old bull dog started for the lamn and that
old sheep whitch had never liked the lamn gumped
rite in front of it with her head down and the bull
dog gumped and grabed her instead of the lamn. if
he had grabed the lamn he wood have killed it to
onct. tonite father asted more than 40 questions
about it. he sed we al done splendid. that me and
Keene showed grate curage but that Cele and mother
showed grate jugment. he nearly dide laffing when
he heard Sam Dire set fire to the sheep. he sed he
gesed Sam dident want to lose his heat. father
asted Cele how she hapened to think to do that and
that is the funny part of it. sumtimes you
have to laff at funerals. well Cele sed that in Scalploc
Sam a bear had a deth grip on his dogs throte
when Scalploc Sam he grabed his pepper pot and
throwed a hanful of pepper in his eys and nose and
while the bear was ritheing in agony and filling the
welkin with horid roars and snarls and growls Scalploc
Sam loded his thrusty riffle and slew him. slew
means kill.

so that give Cele the idea and she done it. she
sed she dident get enny help from the palsams. so
mother is going to let Cele read dime novils if she
dont read two many. then Keene up and sed that
she had aught to be aloud to read Weded yet no
wife but mother she sed no. so father give Keene
15 cents and gave me ten cents. i told him he had
aught to let me go to that picknic but he sed he
dident believe in eleven hours conversion i told him
i had been thinking about that picknic for eleven
days and he laffed and sed i would have to get along
with that ten cents. i tell you we was all tired
tonite. i think father had aug