and he said that troting horses most never laid down more than once or
twict a weak and sum of the best troters never laid down. he said Dexter
and Flora Tempel never was knowed to lay down. then Fatty asked him to
let us see her trot and he hiched her into a buggy and we set on the
fence and old Nat he drove of most walking. bimeby we herd the old wagon
ratling and old Nat he came down the street just fluking. I never saw a
horse go so fast. i tell you old Nat he had to pull to stop her. she
breethed prety hard and jerky, but Nat he said it was hickups becaus she
had et too mutch. Fatty he asked how old she was and old Nat he said she
was bout 12 but that she wood be good til she was 30. Then we asked how
mutch he wood sell her for and he said he wanted 5 dolers for her but he
wood let us have her for 2 dolars and fifty cents and we could have the
wagon for 2 dolars and fifty cents two, and he wood throw in the harnes.
but we dident have the money and so we tride to swap and bimeby he said
if i wood give him my gun and Fatty wood give him his silver pensil
case and Beany give him his 6 bladed nife he wood trust us for a month.
so we give him the things and he give us the horse. only we coodent take
her then becaus we have got to find a place to keep her. none of us dass
to tell our folks about it. we woodent let Fatty know about it if we
hadent suposed he had plenty of chink.

Apr. 30. brite and fair. after church today we went round to see if we
cood get a place to keep our horse. we asked Noot Crumet but Noot he
said he dident have enny place to put her unles he give her his room and
he told us to go to Bucher Haly and see if we coodent get a chanse to
put her in his smoke house for we cood keep her longer there than enny
where else and so we went to him and he chased us out of his yard. then
we went to Charles Flanders but he dident have but one room and his shed
wasent big enuf to keep a gote, and then we went over to old Jethrow
Simpsons and Jethrow he said if we wood help him haul wood enuf to fill
his shed we cood keep her in his barn as long as we wanted to and have
enuf hay two.

May 1. it was may day today and we dident have enny school. so me and
Beany went up to Fattys and got him and we went down to old Nats. We
wood have run all the way only Fatty got tukered out. When we got there
old Nat made us promise to give him a hat or a pair of old boots becaus
he kept lady Clara over Sunday. Fatty he said they w