ool closed today. we dont have enny
more school til September. snapcrackers have come. 8 cents a bunch at
old Langlys store. Lane and Rollins sell them for 10 cents. torpedos 8
cents a bunch. pin wheels 1 cent each. Pewt is going to have a cannon.
father wont let me have a cannon. he says i dont know enny more than to
look into it and blow my head off.

June 28. clowdy but no rane. 4th of July pretty soon. father says when
he was a boy all they had for fireworks was balls of wool soaked in
tirpentine whitch they lit and fired round. i am glad i did not live
then.

June 30. clowdy but no rane. went in swimming 3 times today. i am going
bullfroging monday.

June 31. no July 1. Went to church today.

July 2. i went bullfroging today. thunder storm today.

i have got 10 bunches of snapcrackers and some slowmatch. i spent a
dolar of my cornet money. i gess i shall never get that cornet. i hope
it wont rane the 4th.

July 3. Nite before 4th. Pewt and Beany can stay out all nite. father
took my snapcrackers into his room and said if i get up before 5 i cant
have enny.

July 4. i am to tired to wright ennything. i never had so much fun in my
life. i only got burned 5 times. 1 snapcracker went off rite in my face
and i coodent see ennything til mother washed my eyes out. Zee Smith
fired a torpedo and a peace of it flew rite in the corner of my eye and
made a blew spot there. i fired every one of my snapcrackers. it took me
all day.

July 5. brite and fair. i dident wake up today til 10 o'clock. i was
pretty sore and my eyes felt as if they was sawdust in them.

July 6. brite and fair. father staid home today. i wanted him to go
fishing but he woodent.

July 7. father told me i cood go fishing and stay all day. i dont know
what had come over him becaus most always he raises time when i go
fishing and dont come home erly. so i went and cought 3 pickerels and 4
pirch and 2 hogbacks and went in swiming 2 times. well as i was a coming
home 2 or 3 people met me and said they was company at my house, so when
i got home i skined in the back way so as not to see the company til i
got on my best britches, but i met father in the door and he told me to
go rite up to mothers room and see the company. so i skined up to her
room holding my hand behind me becaus i had tore my britches auful
getting over a fence and i dident want the company to see. well what
do you think the company was. it was the homliest baby you ever see,
it