ve of God
and went rite over backwards. i thougt i shood die and jest then one
went of bang rite in the room and then they all begun to go of bang bang
bang and i grabed the box up and pluged it out of the window and mother
came up jest hipering and the room was full of smoke and i was stamping
out the burning paper. well when i got it out she was prety mad with me
and made me clean the room and wash the floor and windows. ferst i went
out and picked up my snapcrackers. they were all rite but all the canon
crackers but 2 had went of. Mother she asked me how they got afire and i
said i was fooling with them and they got on fire and i had to plug them
out of the window. then she said that was what fritened Miss Hartnett so
and i said was she fritened and she said she was so fritened that she
fell over backwards and i said is that so. mother dont know i did it on
purpose whitch is prety good luck for me, so she only made me keep my
snapcrackers in the yard. so i put them in a hole in the apple tree.
gosh, you aught to hear Miss Hartnett tell about it.

July 7, 186- brite and fair. i have been in bed 3 days. on the fourth i
got bloan up with Pewts canon. i had fired all my snapcrackers but 2
bunches whitch i had saved for nite, so me and Pewt we was fixing the
canon, ferst we wood put in sum powder and then we wood put in sum wet
paper for a wod and then we wood put in sum grass and then put in the
ramrod and pound it down with a rock. then we wood put a fuze of a snap
cracker in the tuch hole and lite it and put for the other side of the
street and it wood make an auful bang and tern 2 or 3 sumersets. Well we
had lots of fun and bimeby i was poaring out sum powder out of the
powder horn and all of a suddin they was a flash of litening and the
next i knew i was in bed and father and mother and Cele and Keene and
docter Perry and aunt Sarah and aunt Clark and Georgie was in the room,
and i said what is the matter and mother began to laff and then to cry
and Docter Perry he said you had better take her out and let her lie
down, but mother she said she wood be all rite and docter he said you
needent wurry Missis Shute, you coodent kill this boy with brik. well my
eyes smarted and i felt like the room was spinning round but it dident
hurt enny. well that nite i coodent go to the band concert but they
pushed my bed up to the window and i cood hear it prety good. the next
day i had sum buly gelly and oranges and Cele and Keene rea