hey wood have enuf for all of the
people without that and so i et it all while i was
washing out the boat. i gnew i was a going to have
a hard days wirk and i wanted to be ready and after
i had hid the basket and had the boat reddy the
peeple began to come down to the worf. they had
baskets and pales and paper boxes and ice creem
freesers and bottels and plaits and goblets and mugs
and cups and brown paper packages of coffy that
smeled awful good and made me hungry again
althoug i had et a hole basket full.

well the minister was there with a long taled
coat and a white neck ty and decon William Henry
Johnson and decon Ambrose Peevy and Aunt Hannar
Peevy and Widow Sally Mackintire and lots of
them and evrybody was talking and laffing and
stepping on things they hadent aught to step on and
puting things in rong places and loosing things jest
like old peeple always do.

the ferst thing they done was to pile on to the
worf so many that the worf sunk down and the
water come over it and wet most of there feet and
they al screached and hipered up the bank and then
begun to blame me for it as if i had done it when i
was in the boat and dident tuch their old worf. and
Mrs. Lydia Simpkins shorl went floting down river
and i had to row out and get it and she sed i had
augt to know better than to get too many peeple
on a worf and wet their feet and they thougt i done it
a purpose. sum peple wood have given me ten cents.
she mite have thanked me. the minister was all rite.
he sed it wasent my falt. so they was more cairful
nex time and one at a time they tiptode acros the
worf and got into the boats. i had my boat full
and al the women grabed at the sides of the boat and
hollered wen it rocked the teentyest bit.

but after they see i gnew what i was about they
begun to have a good time draging their hands in the
water and setting one sided. it made it awful hard
to row but i dident say nothing but rew as hard as
i cood. i dident know until we got to the eddy
woods why it was so hard. it was becaus Thomas
Edwin Folsoms coat tales were draging in the water
all the way. if i had gnew that i dont beleeve i wood
have sed nothing. they sung songs like lightly row,
lightly row ore the sparkling waives we go and
rocked in the cradle of the deep and come away come
away theres moonlite on the lake and row brother
row the stream runs fast the rapids are near and
the boat is---sumthing or other i have forgot. they
always sing s