as lots of old hats
at home and so we went way back and got a old tall bever hat and then
old Nat hiched up lady Clara and we piled in. Fatty he drove ferst
becaus he said we coodent have got her unless he had got the old tall
bever. so Fatty he drove up as fur as ass brook and then Beany he drove
as fur as the old brick meeting house and then i drove as fur as the
hall place where Jethrow lives. we all had to stand up when we drove
becaus the ranes is two short. when we got there old Jethrow was there
and he had a dingel cart and we hiched lady Clara into it and went up to
Jady Hill for sum wood. we wirked till 12 oh clock and then we run home
to dinner and run back agen. i took all the meal i had for my hens most
2 quarts and i fed her. it is Fattys tirn next to get meal for her. then
we wirked til six oh clock and we were allmost ded we were so tired.
well when we asked old Jethrow whitch stal we shood put her in he told
us to take our old plug and get out or he wood lick us. jest think of
that. well we dident know what to do. so we waited til most dark and
then Beany said we had beter go to the next house becaus they was a big
shed there. so i said i wood ring if Fatty wood ask and so i rung the
bell and a woman came to the door and Fatty told her all about it and
she said old Jethrow was a meen old skin flint and we cood put our horse
in her shed and cood keep her their as long as we wanted to. so she
give us a lantern and we went out and they was a buly place and we made
a stal with 2 boards and put a lot of saw dust under her and give her a
pale of water only we dident have enny hay. well bimeby Beany said that
he cood see the hay sticking out of the cracks in old Jethrows barn, and
we went over and looked and we cood see plenty of hay there. so Fatty he
said we had ernt that hay and we aught to have it, and Beany said so
two, and Fatty said he woodent steal ennything but this hay was ours and
we had ernt it. so Fatty and Beany puled out a board and held it open
while i puled out enuf hay and then we fed lady Clara and went home.
ennyway the hay was ours and it wasent stealing to take it.

May 2. brite and fair. this morning i got up erly and went over to the
barn. Beany he was there and Fatty he came after i had got there. lady
Clara was laying down and woodent get up. i gess she was prety tired.
so we fed her and Fatty brogt some otes. so we curred her down as far as
we cood reech and brushed her and then we wen