so big. i woodent take his old book ennyway.

Mar. 10. brite and fair. i got fiting with Beany today in his yard. he
chased me over to my yard and i turned round suddin and stuck out my
arm and my fist hit Beany rite in the eye. you had aught to herd him
howl. then mother called me in and sent me to bed. it is prety tuf when
a feller cant hit another feller in the eye whitch is chasing him. well
ennyway i stamped upstairs to bed and when father came home i knew i
shood get a licking. so when father came home i lissened and herd them
eating super, and i herd father say where is that boy and mother said i
sent him to bed for striking Elly Watson. Elly is Beany you know. and
father said whitch licked. and mother said Elly was crying very loud and
holding on to his eye, and so i sent Harry to bed and father said if he
dident do ennything wirse than licking that Watson boy i wont complane
and if he will get up spunk enuf to lick that boy of Brad Puringtons, he
ment Pewt, i will give him a treet. then mother said i dont know what is
the matter with Harry this vacation. he is cross and impident, and then
Keene said i slaped her face yesterday and Cele told Keene it was her
falt and she hadent aught to have plaged me, and Keene said she dident
and Cele said she did and father said you girls shet up when your mother
is talking. then someone shet the door and i dident hear enny more.
after super Cele come up in my room with a tray with my super and i set
up in bed and et my super and Keene looked into the room and made up a
face. after super i heard father talking again and he said i needed a
good licking and mother said something was the matter with me and she
never knew me to keep cross for a hole week, and father said he wood
take it out of me in 2 minits and mother said no she wood talk to me. So
bimeby mother come up and i made beleeve i was asleep and mother set
down by the bed and said are you asleep Harry, and i said yes before i
thought, and then she sorter laffed and began to talk to me and told me
how sory it made her feel to see me so cross and doing bad things and
she wanted me to be better and not wurry her for she dident feel very
well and gosh before i knew it i was balling rite out. well i balled
good and she rubed my head and got me a drink of water and i said i wood
do beter. then she kissed me and went down and after a while i went to
sleep. gosh i maid up my mind if father licked me that i woodent ball
and i w