and old printer Smith came hipering out
as if they was hiched to the string. Bill went to gump of the side of
the steps and he got the string round his leg and went fluking and then
holered to old printer Smith that they was a string tide to his door
bell and printer he holered back that they was one tide to his two. then
they swoar and talked sum and jest then Pewts father come out and they
said it was Pewt and old Missis Sawyer she come out and she said it was
Pewt two. well then they begun to hunt and look behind trees and into
doorways and me and Beany got prety scart and bimeby we opened the door
esy and hipered round Ikes house and ran rite into old printer and he
grabed us both by the neck and holered i have got the misable cusses and
he draged us out to the lite and Bill and Brad said it is George Shutes
boy and Irv Watsons boy and they shook us up lively. well old Missis
Sawyer wanted them to take us to jale but Pewts father and Bill and
printer said to take us down to our fathers and so printer held us by
the neck and marched us down the street and Pewts father and Bill come
along two and old Missis Sawyer she came taging along talking all the
time that we was the wirst boys in town. we went down to fathers ferst
and he come out and Bill he went over and called mister Watson. well he
come over and they all went into the back yard and they told father
about it and Missis Sawyer said she was going to have us arested and
father he said if she wanted to arest me all rite but he wood get a
lawyer and carry the case to the circus coart if it took evry cent he
had and Mister Watson he said so two. and father he said he woodent have
his boy distirbing his nabors and he wood lick me and make me beg
evrybodys pardon, but it wasent merder or hyway robery to ring doorbells
and if they wanted to arest me to sale rite in, and Mister Watson he
said so two. then father and Mister Watson marched us up to old Hobbs
and made us beg his pardon and old Hobbs told father we was the wirst
boys in town and father aught to whale the life out of us, and then we
went down to Pewts and had to beg his pardon for getting him a licking
and then we went over to mister Heads and begged his pardon two. then
father took me into the kichin and give me a licking for eech doorbell
that we rung. he give me a good one for Missis Sawyer becaus she was a
woman and he said we dident have enny bizness to plage a woman, and he
give me a prety good one for