do you think, when we got there she was ded. i gess she
had broak something inside of her. i tell you me and Beany felt prety
bad and Fatty did when we told him. well then father and mister Watson
Beanys father told us to go home and go to bed and so we went. so tonite
i herd father telling mother about it and he said he give old Jethrow a
dresing down that wood tech him not to cheet a boy agen. he said if
Jethrow hadent been a old man he wood have nocked his head of.

May 22. brite and fair. i shal never own a horse agen.

May 23, 186- brite and fair. my hens are laying buly now. i gess they
dident have very good cair when me and Beany and Fatty was keeping Lady
Clara. i tell you a feller witch keeps a horse cant pay mutch atention
to ennything else.

May 24. brite and fair. tonite me and father went down to old man
Collins. he wants to sell father his cow. he says she gives 20 quats of
milk a day. father says the milk we get of the milk man is all chork and
water.

May 25. rany as time. father ofered 30 dolars for old man Collins cow.
he wants 35 dolars. she has got auful long horns. old man Collins said
she had auful big milk vanes. father said they was varrycose vanes and
she want wirth 30 dolars but he wood give it to help out a old man. old
man Collins he said if she kep on giving milk the way she was a giving
it they wood have to milk her in a tub. then father he said he gessed
she give so mutch milk that it want good for ennything and old man
Collins he said you cood take the creem up by one corner and lift it out
like a old pair of linen britches. they dident trade tonite.

May 26. brite and fair. tonite me and father went down to old man
Collins agen. father said he was going to trade for that cow only i must
shet up and not say ennything. he said you jest wach me and you will
lern sumthing about trading. so i wached him. well we went down and
father said well mister Collins how do you feel about trading tonite.
and old man Collins he said, i gess you are two late George fer i have
sold her to a man in Hamton Falls. and father said what did you get for
her and old man Collins he said i told him he cood have her for 35
dolars and he ofered me 33 dolars and 50 cents and i said the first man
whitch ofers me 35 dolars gets her, and i gess he will be up tomorow
morning. then father he said have you made the trade and old man Collins
he said he hadent made enny trade but he had kind of let the man
understand h