koop to mutch.

Jan. 16. the speckles have all gone of. doctor Perry says i et to many
donuts.

Jan. 18. brite and fair. yesterday to and day before yesterday i have
forgot.

Jan. 19. snowed all day. Me and Beany is mad.

Jan. 20. father is sick becaus he et to mutch salt fish and potato and
pork. he is auful cross and hit me a bat today becaus i left the door
open. i gess he will be sorry when i am ded.

Jan. 21. brite and fair. went to church in the morning and in the
afternoon greeced some paper and trased some pictures.

Jan. 22. i had to stay in the wood-box today for whispering to Whacker
with the cover down. i like it becaus they is a peep hole in the box
and you can see the fellers and they cant see you. by and by Gimmy
Fitsgerald whispered and old Francis put him in to and we took turns
peeping.

Jan. 23. it raned hard all day and we had one sesion. Beany came over
and we made up and plaid in the barn making fly boxes.

Jan. 24. nothing much today, rany in the morning and froze at night.

Jan. 25. brite and fair. everything was covered with ice and when father
started for the depot he tumbled down the front steps from the top to
the botom. mother says he went bumpity bump and his hat went one way and
his dinner box went the other. i herd him swaring aufuly about that dam
boy, and i gess he wood have come up and licked time out of me, but he
had to hurry to get the train.

Jan. 26. jest as soon as the skating comes it has to snow and spoil it.

Jan. 27. i coodent go out of the yard this afternoon becaus i dident put
ashes on the front steps before father fell down and so Pewt and Beany
and Whacker and Nibby Hartwell and Diddly Colket and Nipper and Prisilla
and Gim Wingit and lots of the fellers came over and we had a snowball
fite. mother says she hops father wont keep me at home anuther
afternoon.

Jan. 28. brite and fair. it never ranes Sundays so a feller cant go to
church.

Jan. 29. Nothing puticular today. it always seams harder to go to school
mundays, more fellers gets licked mundays than enny day in the weak. i
got stood on the platform with my head in the corner for looking of my
book today.

Jan. 30. brite and fair. i have got a auful chilblane on my heel.

Jan. 31. brite and fair. i was glad today was wensday in the afternoon i
went skating. the students played baseball on the ice.

Feb. 1. brite and fair. pretty soon it will be Washintons berthday, and
then all the boys can rin