f, and Beanys father says if he catches me or Pewt in his
yard he will lick time out of us. Rany today.

December 8. Skinny Bruce got licked in school today. Skipy Moses was in
the wood box all the morning.

December 9. brite and fair, speakin day today. missed in Horatius at the
brige.

December 10. Clowdy but no rane. went to church. lots of new fellers in
sunday school. me and Beany and Pewt and Pile Woods and Billy Folsom
and Jimmy Gad and lots of others. Mister Winsor dident teach today, gess
they woodent let him on account of the rooster fite.

December 11. My new boots from Tommy Gads came today. i tell you they
are clumpers. no snow yet.

December 12. Crismas is pretty near, dont know wether i shall get
ennything. father says i dont desirve ennything. you can get goozeberrys
down to Si Smiths 1 dozen for 5 cents. He has a funny sine it is

flour
meal
molasses
sugar
coffe
tea
spises
pork &
lard
salt
butter
ham
eggs
&so

December 15. Fite at resess today, Gran Miller and Ben Rundlet. Ben
licked him easy. the fellers got to stumping each other to fite. Micky
Gould said he cood lick me and i said he want man enuf and he said if i
wood come out behind the school house after school he wood show me and
i said i wood and all the fellers hollered and said they wood be there.
But after school i thaught i aught to go home and split my kindlings and
so i went home. a feller aught to do something for his family ennyway. i
cood have licked him if i had wanted to.

December 16. Tady Finton got licked in school today. snowed today a
little.

December 17. rained in the nite and then snowed a little. it was auful
slipery and coming out of church Squire Lane fell down whak and Mr
Burley cought hold of the fence and his feet went so fast that they
seemed all fuzzy, i tell you if he cood run as fast as that he cood run
a mile a minite.

December 18. brite and fair. nothing particilar. o yes, Skinny Bruce got
licked in school.

December 19. Cold as time. Went to a sosiable tonite at the Unitarial
vestry. cant go again because Keene told mother i was impident to the
people. i want impident. you see they was making poetry and all sitting
around the vestry. they wanted to play copenhagin and post office and
clap in and clap out, but Mister Erl woodent let them because it was in
church. so they had to play poetry. one person wood give a word and then
the oppisite person wood give a word that rimed