ood do something auful the next day, i wont say what it was but
it was something auful. i have been a prety mean feller.

Mar. 11, 186- when i got up this morning i felt buly, and i got a pail
of water and brogt in wood enuf to fill the woodbox way over the top. it
is warm and the snow is all gone xcept in the corners where the drifts
were. i saw a robin today and i wished on it but i cant tell what i
wished becaus if i did it woodent come true. it is something i have been
wanting auful for a long time, but i havent had money enuf to buy it.

Mar. 12. rany. i went to church. the minister said it was esy to be good
if you tride. i gess ministers dont know much ennyway.

Mar. 13. me and Beany is going to keep store in my shed. today we made
the counter of 2 barils and a board and we made a lot of flyboxes and
jacobs laders and tonite we made a lot of sweet firn cigars, and hayseed
and mulen leaf and cornsilk. this afternoon we went out picking up bones
in a baskit. most every yard had a lot of bones in it xcept where the
fellers had been. we got most a buchel. we get half a cent a pound for
them down to old Gechels store they make nife handels of them and perl
buttons.

Mar. 14. Beany got mad today and says he wont keep store with me. we got
our flyboxes all pined up and our boxes of cigars all ready and mother
said she wood give me some molases for sweatened water. so we was all
ready when Beany got mad about the sine. he wanted it to be Watson and
Shute becaus he is older then me, but it was my shed and my sweatened
water and my board and my barils and so i said my name shood come ferst
and he got mad and took half of the things and went home. i dident let
him have a bit of the sweatened water. Lucy Watson was mad two and
woodent speek to Keene and Cele.

Mar. 15, 186- i opened my store today and nailed up my sine fancy goods
and sweatened water H. Shute. Potter and Whack and Fatty and Boog and
Puzzy and all the fellers come round and i sold lots of stuff. i charge
10 nails for a sweet firn cigar, 5 nails for a rattan or grape vine
cigar and 3 nails for hayseed cornsilk and mullen leaf. 3 nails for
white jacobs ladders and 5 for gilt, 10 nails for flyboxes made of
writing book paper, and 15 and 20 nails for gilt and silver and red
paper. 15 nails for snappers that will snap good, and 15 nails for a
glass of sweatened water. i had a big trade and i cood see Beany out in
frunt of his house looking over. bimeby he came