as my
falt. the baby had the crupe. father says something is always the
matter.

Apr. 14. clowdy but no rane. beany has got a dog, it is black and tan,
not 2 dogs but jest 1. his name is Gip and he can fite.

Apr. 15. still clowdy. Frank Hanes has got a dog like Beanys. his name
is Dime, i bet he can fite.

Apr. 16. brite and fair. i put some minnies in the geese pond today. it
was after church and i got them yesterday. they wood have dide in the
tin pail, so it wasent rong to put them in Sunday. tomorow we are going
down to get the geese eggs.

Apr. 17. brite and fair. i am wrighting this in bed. it has been a prety
tuf day i tell you. father coodent come home erly becaus he had to wirk,
so he give me fifty cents and me and Beany went down to hampton falls
after the geese eggs. well we got them and started home. we had Beanys
fathers horse and we saw a old black horse by the side of the road and
Beany said i wood like to plug him with a geese egg, i said praps they
is a roten egg there. so we shook the eggs till by and by they was one
whitch ratled. then Beany choze to plug him and he let ding at him and
the egg hit him a paister rite in the side and broak and spatered him
all over with yellow, and he kicked up and ran away before i cood get a
nother egg. then we went on till we saw 2 cows and we shook the eggs
again till we got 2 whitch ratled and when we went by we stood up in the
wagon and let ding at the cows. i hit one rite in the frunt of her head
and the yellow ran down over her nose and Beany hit the other in the
side and then a man holered at us and we licked the horse and drove of
lively. then we saw a cat sitting in a barn door and we both let ding at
her but dident hit her and both eggs smached agenst the barn and the
cat ran into the barn and a man came out with a tin pail in his hand and
a little stool in the other and holered at us and we licked up the horse
again. after that we dident plug enny more for they was only 7 eggs left
and they only ratled a little. when we got home Beany let me out and i
told father about the eggs being roten, he was prety mad and said i had
aught to have shook them before i took them. he asked me what i did with
the roten eggs and i said i threw them away and jest then Mister Watson
Beanys father came over with Beany and 2 men and it was the same man
whose horse we pluged with roten eggs, and the man who holered at us
when we plugged the old cows. the man grabed me by th