g the town bell at noon and at nite.

Feb. 2. clowdy but no snow. tomorror will be saterday they is only
2 days in the weak that is wirth ennything and that is wensday and
saterday except in vacation.

Feb. 3. Snowed like time all the forenoon. in the afternoon me and Pewt
and Beany rolled up some big snowballs. then tonite we put all the balls
together and made a big snowman rite in front of Mrs. Lewises front
door. then we put a old hat on it and hung a peace of paper on it and
wrote man wanted on the paper. tomorrow all the people who go to church
will see it and laff becaus Mister Lewis got a devorse. they will be
some fun tomorrow.

Feb. 5. i coodent wright ennything last nite becaus i got sent to bed
and got a licking. i tell you we got in a auful scrape. Sunday morning
me and Pewt and Beany went out erly to see our snowman. he was there and
when people began to go by they began to laff, and most of the people
said it was the funniest thing they ever see and who ever put it there
was a pretty smart feller. so we said we did it and Pewt said he thought
of it ferst and Beany said he did, and i said i did most of the werk.

Well, pretty soon some people came along and looked at it and said it
was a shame and they went over to pull of the paper and she came out and
see it, and she took a broom and nocked it over and broke it all up. and
then she went rite down to my house to tell father. then she went over
to Beanys house and then up to Pewts. well after church father took me
over to her house. and Beany was there with his father and Pewt with his
father. she said she wood have us arested for it. but they talked a long
time and after a while she said if our fathers wood lick us and make us
saw and split a cord of wood she woodent say no more about it. when we
went out father said, i never see such dam boys did you Brad, did you
Wats, and they said they never did. so we have got to saw and split that
wood and we got licked two.

Feb. 6. brite and fair. me and Pewt and Beany sawed and split some wood
for Misses Lewis.

Feb. 7. brite and fair. sawed some more wood, me and Pewt and Beany.

Feb. 8. brite and fair. split some more wood, me and Pewt and Beany.

Feb. 9. Fatty Melcher and Caw-caw Harding, Chitter Robinson and Medo
Thurston helped saw some more wood.

Feb. 10. Brite and fair. this afternoon Whack Pozzy and Boog Chadwick,
Dutchy Semans, Nigger Bell Pop Clark, Shinny Thing and Pile Wood all
come down wi