th saws and axes and helped us saw that wood, we worked
all the afternoon and got it done and piled up before dark. then Misses
Lewis asked us in and gave us some buly donuts and some sweatened water
and we sung and told stories and before we went we told her we was sorry
we bilt the snowman and she said she was sorry two. then when we went
away we give 3 cheers for her.

Feb. 11. brite and fair. i shant forget last Sunday very soon.

Feb. 12. rany today. i dont care becaus i havent got to saw enny more
wood.

Feb. 13. still rany. i dont care.

Feb. 14. pretty cold today. going to have a new kind of speling mach
tomorrow.

Feb. 15. Got to the head in spelling today. old Francis makes us all
stand up in the ile and gives us a lot of words to spell and then we
wright them down on our slates and then the head feller or girl changes
slates with the foot feller or girl and so on and then old Francis
wrights the words on the blackboard and then we mark each others slates.
John Flanygin was the foot feller and had my slate. well most of Johns
words was wrong. but John marked mine all write. i gess John dident know
it, but ther was 4 or 5 of my words speled wrong. i set out to tell old
Francis but dident dass to becaus he licked me for teling that i paisted
Cawcaw Harding that time. so i kept still and kept at the head and John
kept at the foot. i hope John will do it again tomorrow.

Feb. 16. Beat in speling today.

Feb. 17. beat in speling today.

Feb. 19. Beat in speling today. old Francis is a going to give a prise
tomorrow. i told father i was pretty sure to get it and he said it will
be the first one. Aunt Sarah asked him if he took many prises. and he
said he dident get much of a prise when he got me. i gess he wont say
that tomorrow when i bring my prise home.

Feb. 20. i dident get the prise. you see yesterday John Flanygin spelt
more words write than Gimmy Fitsgerald and Gimmy went to the foot. when
we marked slates Gimmy marked 9 of my words wrong out of 20, and i had
to go down most to where John Flannygin was. old Francis said he dident
beleave i had aught to have staid at the head so long as i did and i was
afraid he wood lick me and John but he dident. he said he was ashamed
and disapointed in me but i gess he was not the only one who was
disapointed. i had told Pewt and Beany i wood treat on what father wood
give me for getting the prise. Pewt and Beany was both mad, and are
going to lay for Gimmy.