to have a school xibision at the end of this tirm
and old Francis says he is going to give prises to the best scholars.
Nipper and Pricilla and all the other good boys are studying hard so as
to get the prises. i woodent take one of their prises if they wood give
me one. i woodent give 2 cents for their old prises.

Feb. 22. today is Washington's berthday and we can ring the town bell at
1 oh clock and at 5 for a hour. i went down both times and Ed Derbon let
us take turns in ringing the bell. only 2 can ring at a time. when me
and Fatty Melcher was ringing the bell went over and it pulled us way
up to the ceeling. most of the fellers staid out in frunt of the church
and pluged snowballs. bimeby some stewdcats came along and we pluged and
hit a stewdcat named Lee rite in the back of his head and he said we
have stood enuf from these townies and he and Stone and Clifford and
Winsor, who was our sunday school teacher until he saw the rooster fite,
and Belmont came over the fence and charged us and we pluged as hard as
we cood and they pluged two and we ran behind the church and they
follered us and jest lammed us and washed Beanys face and rolled Pewt in
the wet snow, and jest then Boog and Whack and Puz and Zee Smith came
piling in and paisted time out of them and then the stewdcats charged
them and throwed Whack in a drift and Zee got one in the back that made
him lay down and grunt before he cood get his breth, and then all the
stewdcats from Toles house piled out and piched in and they was giving
us time when Bozzaris Wadly see the fite and jumped of a load of wood
and Pacer and Stuby Gooch and Scotty Briggam and Kibo Marston and Skinny
Bruce and Frank Elliott herd us hollering give it to the stewdcats and
came running over and then we had jest a buly fite and i tell you the
snow balls jest flew and Fatty Gilman got one rite in the eye and Pheby
Talor got one rite in the mouth jest as he was hollering stewdcat and it
filled his mouth with snow and old Woodbrige Odlin was coming out of the
bank and he got one in the leg and one in his old plug hat and it nocked
it of and he went over to the hotel and i gess he told old Brown becaus
he and Swane and Potsy Dirgin the poliseman came over and made us stop,
it was the best snow ball fite i ever saw. we are going to lay for the
stewdcats next saterday at the libary. old Bozzaris Wadly was the best
fiter we had and nobody knowed he cood fite. when the stewdcats wood
charge us