with it. it was auful
silly. a girl wood give the word direxion and then a stewdcat wood say
affexion and waul his eyes towards the girl. and then another wood say
miss, and another stewdcat wood say kiss and then he wood waul his eyes,
and when it came my turn i said what rimes with jellycake, and the girls
turned red and the stewdcats looked funny, and Mister Burley said if
i coodent behave i had better go home. Keene needent have told mother
anyway. You jest wait Keene, and see what will happen some day.

December 20. Bully skating. went after school and skated way up to the
eddy, was going to skate with Lucy Watson but Pewt and Beany hollered so
that i dident dass to. John Toomey got hit with a hockey block rite in
the snoot and broke his nose.

December 21. Brite and fair. nothing particular to-day. nobody got
licked. old Francis had his hand done up in a sling. he said he had a
bile on it. i tell you the fellers were glad.

December 22. Warm and rany and spoiled the skating. coodent do anything
but think of Crismas.

December 23. Saturday and no skating. went down to the library to get
a book for Sunday. me and Beany were sticking pins into the fellers
and making them holler and Jo Parsons the libarian jumped rite over the
counter and chased us way down to Mr. Hams coffin shop. he dident catch
us either. then we went down town and Billy Swett lent me a dime novel
to read sunday. it was named Billy Bolegs a sequil to Nat Tod the
traper. sequil means the things in Nat Tod that was not finished.

December 24. Brite and fair. Crismas tomorrow. went to sunday school.
Mr. Lovel is our teacher now.

December 25. Crismas. got a new nife, a red and white scarf and a bag of
Si Smiths goozeberies. pretty good for me.

December 26. Crismas tree at the town hall. had supper and got a bag of
candy and a long string of pop corn. Mr. Lovel took off the presents
and his whiskers caught fire, and he hollered o hell right out. that
was pretty good for a sunday school teacher, wasent it. Jimmy Gad et too
much and was sick.

December 27. Beany has got a new striped shirt not a false bosom but a
whole shirt. Beany wont speak to me now. Lucy Watson has got a new blew
hat with a fether. she wont speak to Keene and Cele eether. you jest
wait Beany and Lucy and see.

Jan. 1, 186-Had an awful time in school today. me and Cawcaw Harding set
together. when we came in from resess Cawcaw reached over and hit me a
bat, and i lent him