not mutch but sum. we was playing snap the whip today and
Johnny Kelly was on the end and got snaped rite into a pudel of water
and he said i dident hold on and he wood give me a slap in the mug and i
said he want man enuf and jest then the bell rang and we had to go in.
tomorow he had beter look out i am going to give him one in the eye and
then grab for the under hold and get him down and lam him good. i bet he
cant fite enny beter then Ti Crummet did, and when i have licked him all
the fellers will be afrade of me. i bet he will wish he had never fit
with me.

Feb. 1. Brite and Fair. i have got a black eye. this morning i went to
school erly and when i got there Johnny Kelly was there and he said now
old Plupy longlegs i will fix you and i said pile rite in and we will
see and he began to swear wirse then Ti did, and i said if you want a
good paist in the gob they is plenty of them rite here if you are man
enuf to sale in, and when i said that he come at me so quick that i
dident have time to get ready and he hit me in the eye and in the mouth
2 times and got the underhold before i cood and got me down and lammed
me till i hollered enuf. then all the fellers holered Plupy got licked
Plupy has got a black eye. it was prety mean ennyway. when i got home to
dinner mother asked me how i got my eye sore and i said i got it boxing
with Johnny Kelly and she said was you fiteing and i said we box every
day in school sometimes Beany and Whack and sometimes me and Pewt but
today me and Johnny Kelly boxed and he hits to hard and she said she
shood think so, and said i had beter box with sum other boy and i gess
so two. ennyway i dident lie to her for that wasent lying.

Feb. 2. Brite and fair. i gave Johnny Kelly the core of my apple today.
Gosh sum fellers can fite auful and swear auful two.

Feb. 3. Brite and fair. Beany has got a new blew jacket. he felt prety
big about it until Pewt took him in the back with a roten apple. Beany
staid in all resess a scraping the apple off of his coat. this afternoon
he wore his old jacket. but he is going to pay Pewt for that sum way.

Feb. 4. it snowed hard all day all the fellers are whacking cats head on
each others back. you take some chork and chork the inside of your hand
and your ferst and last finger and then you wet your fingers and make
eyes and nose and mouth in your chorky hand and then you wate til a
feller comes along and then you lam him one on the back and it makes the
f