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him not to tell.
Sept. 12. Brite and fair. Will has got a black eye and a scrached nose.
Nellie has got well and we had a ride today after church and i let Will
drive. in the afternoon Beany and Pewt came over and we had a
shooting mach with the whailbone bow behind the barn. i told Beany
and Pewt not to tell for if they did father woodent let us go together
agen. Fatty and Potter and Billy Swett wont tell ether.
Sept. 13, 186- Brite and fair. today we had a good time. mother let me
invite Beany and Pewt and Nipper Brown to supper for company for
Will. Pewt coodent come becaus he shot one of his fathers hens with
his arrow rifle jest like i shot my hen whitch was eating eggs and
Mister Purinton Pewts father woodent let him come. i gess if father had
been at home for supper i wood have got a licking but he dident get
home til the 7 oh clock train. well we had been raising time up in my
room and when we went down to supper i pulled a chair out when
Nipper went to set down and he set rite down on the floor bang and
grabed the table cloth and pulled of his plate and cup and sauser and
Beanys sauser and they came rite down on his head and broak to smash.
Nipper was scart but mother picked him up and said he needent wurry
for she dident care for the dishes and asked him if he was hurt and said
it was my falt and she told me i had aught to be ashamed and I hadent

aught to have company if i dident know how to treet them. she dident
send me to bed becaus she had to be polite to Beany and Nipper and so
i was all rite, after supper we played domminoes til the nine oh clock
bell rang and then Beany and Nipper went home.
Sept. 14. Brite and fair. Will went home to-day i was sorry he went, we
had a good time and i never knew him to be such a good feller before. i
gess it did him good to get a lickin. father says it always does me good
to get a good lickin. before he went he got me to throw a ball easy at
him and he let it hit him in the eye so he cood tell his folks that a ball
hit him in the eye, so he wood not have to tell a lie to his father about
his black eye. a feller feels a good deal better when he doesent have to
lie to his folks. when i usted to hook in swiming i usted to stick my
head in the rane water barril so I cood tell father how i wet my hair. i
dident like to do it sometimes becaus the barril was full of little
wigglers but i had ruther do that then have to tell a lie, ennyway i gess
all the wigglers that got into my hair died becaus they never bit me.
father says they turn into musketers.
Sept. 15, 186- Brite and fair. i forgot to say that i giv Will the
whailbone bow that Billy Swett giv me to see the fite. he was glad to
get it i tell you, and he sed i was the best feller he knew. i told him
when he came here agen we wood have some more fun. mother gave
him 25 cents and gave me ten cents for being so good to him. me and
Pewt and Beany had some goozeberies down to old Si Smiths. father
told me one time i cood have a football, so i asked him tonite and he
sed i dident desirve ennything, that i had caused him a good deal of
truble, ennyway i am going to have 2 bladders.
Sept. 16. Clowdy but no rane. Beany and Ticky Moses got fiting at
resess today. we was playing 2 old cat and we was chewsing sides, and
Beany and Ticky was chewsing and the way they did it was this. Beany
he throwed the bat at Ticky and Ticky he cought it about half way
down, and then Beany he put his hand above Tickys and Ticky he put
his above Beanys, and so on til when they came to the end of the bat
the last one whitch had his hand on has the first choice and no fudging,
only he has got to swing the bat around his head 3 times and throw it 3

times as far as he can gump. well Beany he had the last hand on the bat
and he