he wood speak to father about it, so when father got
home old man Thirsten came up to the house and said George that cussid
boy of yours has been pluging roten eggs at my barn and father said this
time Kimball, his name is Kimball, he dident do it for he was with me
all the evening til he went to bed. so father and old man Thirsten went
down to see the barn and it was all spatered with yellow. then old man
Thirsten said he wood give a dolar to know who the scowndril was whitch
pluged those eggs, and father said i wish you cood Kimball, it is a
outrage, and father looked auful funny, jest as he did when he scart old
Ike Shute that time on the high school steps. when we went home father
kept laffing, and when he told mother she said it was a shame and he
aught to make it rite with him, and so father bought a sawhoss of him,
he sells sawhosses, and i have got to use it. somehow i always get the
wirst of it.

Apr. 26, 186- it raned like time last nite but it was brite and fair
when i got up. what do you think, me and Beany are going to by a horse
of old Nat Mason. he lives down Stratam road and he has a old troter
that can go like time.

Apr. 27. brite and fair. me and Beany saw old Nat today. we aint got
enny chink. if i hadent paid that money to those hampton falls men for
pluging roten eggs at there cows i should have sum. all i can rase is
thirty five cents and Beany can rase fifteen cents. Fatty Gilman most
always has lots of chink.

Apr. 28. me and Beany saw Fatty today. he wants to go in with us becaus
he says his folks want to use old Chub so mutch that he dont get enny
chance to use him. but Fatty he hasent got enny chink eether. enny way
we are going to see old Nat tomorrow and peraps he will let us have it
on tick.

Apr. 29. brite and fair. today was saterday and this afternoon me and
Beany and Fatty went down to see old Nat. he was in a old house smoking
a old pipe made out of a corn cob. so Fatty he asked him to show us his
old plug, only Fatty dident say old plug but said Mister Mason can we
see your troting horse, and old Nat he got up and went to a little barn
and opened the door and holered get up lady Clara and she tride to get
up and coodent, and old Nat swoar and kicked her and then she coodent
get up, and then he clim over her and puled her head up into the rack
and then he took a stick and hit her sum more and swoar sum more and
then she got up. then Beany he asked old Nat what made her not get up