Brite and fair. i have been sick today. i gess i et two much
spare rib. when i think of it it makes me sick. so i have been thinking
over the poitry about the fellers. some of it is prety good.

Ed Tole fell in a hole
and coodent get out to save his sole

i made that up.

Plupy Shute
is a dirty brute.
and never will fite
if they is a chance to scoot.

Pewt he made that up.

Old Tim Calahan
he was a hell of a man.

Fatty Melcher he made that up.

Frank Hanes aint got enny branes
and dont know enuf to go in when it ranes

Beany he made that up.

Nipper Brown tumbled down
and busted his head and cracked his crown.

i made that up too.

Granvil Miller the barber
went to shave his father
the razer sliped and cut his lip
becaus he forgot the lather.

Skinny Bruce he made that up.

i tell you they is some prety good poits among the fellers. but any
feller whitch gets poitry made up about him gets mad.

Nov. 6. brite and fair. Ed Tole can spit further than enny feller in
school.

Nov. 7. Keene and Cele are sick in bed and coodent sing today in
church. they have feerful headakes. docter Perry came in to see them.

Nov. 8. brite and fair. Keene and Cele and Georgie are all sick now and
the docter says it is scarlet fever. they are all up in the front
chamber and mother and aunt Sarah take care of them.

Nov. 9. clowdy but no rane. Annie is sick now and i cant go to school
ennymore. i like that. so i am making a hen koop.

Nov. 10. Rany today. Beany he hollered over today to find out how Keene
and Cele and Georgie and Annie are. i have got a soar throte but i aint
going to tell ennyone about it.

Nov. 11. i had a headake all last nite. i bet i am going to have the
fever. Frankie has got it now and mother is afrade the baby is coming
down, she asked me how i felt and i said buly.

Nov. 12. old Missis Smith is helping take care of the house and gets the
brekfasts and dinners and suppers. today docter Perry he came down
stairs and i was setting in a chair and he said what is the matter with
you, and i said nothing and he said let me look at your throte, and he
made me open my mouth and he looked down in my gozzle and then he said
you march upstairs into the hospitle and tell your mother that you are a
new pacient and i went up and when mother saw me come in she said well i
have been expecting you. then i went down to my room and got my
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