ongs like them.

when we got up to the Eddy they got out and the
decons coat tales were driping over his hine legs so
he took his coat off and hung it on a lim of a tree to
dry. then i had to lug all the baskets and pales up
the bank. befoar i went down for a second lode
of peeple Mrs. Dearborn give me 2 more sanwiches
and 3 donuts and a drink of lemonade for rowing
them so good and when i had et them i started down
river again. it was bully to se how eesy that boat
went after the people was out. it was jest as eesy
as nothing at all. i met all the boats comeing up.
they was rowing evry whitch way. the oars was
splashing and not keeping time. there was one man
whitch thougt he was a grate rower. he set in the
back rowing seat and had 2 or 3 full groan peeple in
the front part of the boat and a little dride up
woman who dident weig more than a empty basket
on the back seat and she was triing to steer the boat.
the bow of the boat was sunk down and the stirn
was up in the air so that the ruder dident tuch the
water. the boat would swing round and the man
wood pull sideways till his face was all one sided and
jaw at his wife becaus she dident know enuf to steer
a boat, and she wood paw back that she gnew as
mutch about steering as he did about rowing. they
were having a real good time.

then i met Beany with 2 fat wimmen in the stirn
seat and in the front seat Beany was up so high
that his oars cood hardly reech the water and the
boat was one sided becaus one woman was twice as
fat as the other and the other peeple were leening
over the side of the boat and Beany was sweting like
a horse and mad enuf to bite a peace out of the bow
of the boat and eat it and he was going about one
mile an hour and his face was as red as Skiny
Bruces hair. i set up and rew with long even stroaks
and fethered my oars and dident splash a bit and the
boat went on an even keel with little whirlpools
when the oars came out and when i passed Beany the
peeple in his boat sed dont that Shute boy row well,
i wish he was rowing this boat. if he was we wood
get there sum time today. and Beany was mad
and i heard him say huh old Plupy is only showing
off.

well when i got back to the worf there was sum
more peeple wating with sum milk cans of lemonaid,
and a freeser of ice creem and i was so hot from
rowing so hard that i set down and brethed hard
and wiped my face and held my head in my hands.
they asted me if i was sick and i sed no on