mud. the wimmen
nearly dide laffing and Charlie sed mersy sakes what
a mess. most evry other feller wood have swore
feerful but Charlie doesnt sware and is a good young
man. that is why we call him Charlie.

well Charlie sed he gessed he wood woulk home
and change his britches, he called them his pants,
and so he got out of the boat and clim up the bank
and started. i dident tell him he was on the rong
side of the river becaus he dident ast me and i
supose he gnew what he was about. the last i see
of him he was going towerds Kensinton. while i
was sick i sort of wurred about him but when i ast
mother she sed he was in the store. he works for
old Gid Lyford.

when we got back to the picknic old Mrs. Bolton
had had a spell and the minister and Decon Sawyer
was lifting her into Miss Susan Parkinsons caryall
to drive her home. sum feller had throwed a teeny
little bull toad in her lap. huh i shood think that
was a prety thing to have a spell for. i never see
ennyone have a spell. i wish i had got there in time
to see it. Beany sed it was grate fun and elvrybody
injoyed it.

Mr. E. O. Luvrin had been stang by a hornit on
his underlip and evrybody had a good time looking
at him. i don't beleeve there was ever a beter
picknic.

the tables had been set and looked fine. our table
with the reaths was the pretyest. well we all set
down and evrybody sed hush, hush and the minister
sed a long prair. peraps it seamed longer becaus
i was most starved to deth. i had been wirking
so hard and it was a long time since i had my breckfast.

well after the minister got through, we pitched in
and et. i never had so good a dinner in my life.
we had ham sanwiches and cornbeef sanwiches and
tung sanwiches and pickles and milk and pickle
limes and creem cakes and blewberry pie and chese
and rasbery tirnovers and astrackan apples and
balled egs and blackberrys and tee and coffy and
sardeens on crackers and custerd pyes and squash
pyes and apple pyes and gelly roles and tarts and
coconut cakes and all the ice creem we cood eat,
pink ice creem and white ice creem and yeller ice
creem.

i et sum of everything they had. you see it was
a long time since i had my breckfast and i had been
wirking hard and mother had always told me to
eat evrything in my plait and i wanted to ennyway.
so i et until i coodent eat ennymore and most everybody
done so two.

after dinner i helped clear away the things and
then sum peeple went wauling in