rom fat pork and beens.

and then Beany he made up this poitry about me,

Plupy Shute is meener than Pewt
and he is a prety meen galoot.

then mother made me go in a room on the other side of the house, but i
coodent sleep and she let me get up at super time. when father come home
he said the tiger had carrid of and et up a bull over to Kingston and he
gessed he was coming this way, but i wasent scart. well after super i
split my kindlings and me and Beany went down town. we went to doctor
Derborns store and got sum soda water and Beany he paid for it. then we
got sum goozeberries of old Si Smiths and i paid for them and then we
went over to Beanys and got a lot of sweet firn segars and then we went
down town agen. we went into stores and looked at things and we went
down to the warf and then we went acrost to the raceway and went in
swiming. it was kind of cold and we dident stay in very long. then it
began to be dark and we went back to water street and staid in the
stores til the nine oh clock bell rung and then we went back home. the
folks was all setting on the front steps. so me and Beany set down two
and bimeby the folks said they must go in and they all went in and shet
the door. it made me feel lonesum when i herd them lock the door. it
must be prety tuf on fellers whitch havent got enny home. then me and
Beany went over to his house and set on the steps til his folks went in
and shet the door and then we set on the fence under the gas lite and we
herd Nat Weeks come home and mister Gewell and bimeby Si Smith shet up
his store and then it begun to be loansum. so we went down as fer as the
swamscot house and they was a lite in sum of the rooms and we set down
on old Kellogs steps and talked. bimeby old Straton the gas man come
round with a little ladder and clim up and put out the gas and then it
was prety dark. then Beany he said less go up to Pewts and yowl like
cats. so we went up into Pewts garden and we begun to yowl feerful like
cats and bimeby Pewts father opened a window and holered scat you devils
and jest then Nat Weeks he stuck his head out and he holered scat two.
and then we kep still a minit and Pewts father said i wish there wasent
a cussid cat alive and Nat Weeks he said so two and then they went to
bed agen. bimeby we begun to yowl agen and then we yowled jest like cats
fiting and Pewts father opened the window agen and pluged a club out
into the yard and holered scat and then we kep s