looked jest like a munky and made feerful faces and kinder squeaked
like. Mother was sick and they was a old fat woman who told me to go
out, but mother said she wanted to see me and she kissed me and asked me
to kiss the baby. i dident want to but i did it becaus mother was sick.
mother asked me how many fish i caught and what kind and i told her and
said she shood have some for her supper, but she said she gessed she
woodent have enny jest then.

then i went down stairs and father did i like the baby and i said it was
homly, and he said it was 10 times as good looking as i was and he said
he was glad that when the baby grode up it woodent have Beany and Pewt
to play with and woodent be tuff like me, and then Aunt Sarah said she
gessed me and Beany and Pewt wasent enny tuffer than father and Gim
Melcher were when they was boys, and then father laffed and told me to
go to bed and i went. that was a auful homly baby ennyway.

July 8. nothing particular today. you bet that baby can howl. went to
church.

July 9. brite and fair. most every morning we go up in mothers room to
see the old fat woman wash the baby and hear it howl. it turns black in
the face. i bet it will be a fiter.

July 10. i have got a new nickname. it is yallerlegs. that is becaus
father bought me a pair of kinder yellow britches, and made me wear
them. i bet he woodent like to be called yallerlegs.

July 11. brite and fair. went in swiming today to a new place. we call
it the stump. it is up by the eddy.

July 12. a thunder storm. in the afternoon went fishing but dident get a
bite. Pewts father says fish wont bite after a thunder storm.

July 13. a auful hot day. tonite i went up to the depot to see Majer
Blake and Charles Tole fite over passengers to the beach.

July 14. i am going to the beach to stop with Beany in his fathers tent.
it is called hotel de pig.

July 15. i gess i will go tomorrow.

July 16. me and Beany went to the beach and stopped all day and all
nite. we had a bully time.

July 17. another hot day. went in swiming 4 times. my back is all
burned.

July 18. me and Beany got in the newsleter today. the paper said the
Siamese twins was at the beach stoping at Watsons tent. Pewt was mad
becaus we got in the paper and he dident and told all round that it
dident mean me and Beany but Rashe Belnap and Horris Cobbs.

July 19. Hot as time. nothing particular today.

July 20. Hot as time. nothing particular today.

July 21.