ougt they had hid the close and i hunted in the buches but i
dident find them. so i wated a long time and bimeby i heard sum oars and
i looked and i saw a bote with a feller and 2 girls, so i coodent holler
and i hid behind a tree. so they went by and then i come out and i
walked back to the oak and when i got there i found sum girls picking
dasies and i lay down behind the fence and just then a hornet stung me 2
times and i yelled and gumped rite up and danced round before i thougt
and then i see them and i hipered back to the gravil, they hipered two
the other way you bet. well i set there in the shade for a long time
until i got kind of cold and then i set in the sun. i thougt sum of the
fellers wood come in swiming, but nobody come. i knowed if i wated til
dark i cood get home all rite, only i wood get a licking for scaring the
folks most to deth for they wood think i was drownded. well jest then i
heard sum fellers talking up by the oak and i went up and there was
Potter Goram and Chick Chickering. they had been fishing and had cougt
sum buly pikeril. well i holered to them and they come down where i was
and i told them about the meen trick the fellers had plaid on me and
Potter he said he wood go home for sum close and he give me his jaket
and then he hipered acres the field and me and Chick began to fish and i
cougt a pirch and a eal and Chick he cougt 2 roach. then Potter he come
back with my best close and so i coodent fish enny more. so i went home
in my best close. when i went by Pewts he holered Plupy has got on his
best close. i dident say ennything. so when i got home mother asked me
about it and i told her, it want telltaily eether. so mother she told me
to go up to Pewts for my close and i said if Pewt took them he cood
bring them back and Beany and Fatty two. so at super father he asked me
why i had got on my best close and i told him and he said if Pewt
dident bring those close back in about 5 minits he wood go up and boot
him down to our house and back agen and jest then Mister Purington came
into the yard holding Pewt by the ear. Pewt he had the close and Mister
Purington he nocked at the door and he asked for me and when i come to
the door he made Pewt give me the close and then he told Pewt to tell me
he was sorry for what he had done and Pewt he dident want to say it but
Mister Purington most lifted Pewt of the ground by the ear and then Pewt
he said he was sorry kind of mad like and Mister Purington