in my stomack and i called mother
again. this time i was awful sick again and father
and mother and Aunt Sarah were verry busy for a
long time. bimeby i wasent so sick to my stomack
but my panes were wirse and father went for docter
Perry. he was gone a long time before he come
back with him. doctor Perry he took a look at me
and sed poison ivory, so he got it did he. then he
felt of my stomack and looked at by tung and felt
my pulce and heard me grone and gave me a dose
of castor oil and then he took out a little popsquirt
the litlest i ever see and he sed i gess i shall have to
give you a subteranian interjection. i thougt a
interjection was a part of speach like alas and o and
ah. ennyway that is what the grammar says.

but this wasent that kind for the docter run the
sharp point of that little popsquert whitch was jest
as sharp as a needle rite into my arm. it hurt like
time and i hollered but after he had pulled it out i
began to feel kind of lite and floty and the ferst i
gnew the pane was gone and i dident know nothing
more.

well the next morning i felt a little beter but not
enuf to get up and not enuf to eat but after a while
i felt wirse again and mother sent for doctor Perry
again and he come and give me some more medecine
and another subteranian interjection whitch put me
to sleep again. the next time i woke up again i
coodent open one ey and only see a teeny bit out of
the other, but i felt better, only i iched feerful and
smarted. doctor Perry laffed when he come in and
sed i looked funny but not so funny as old E. O.
Luvrin. he sed all the peeple whitch set at one table
had it and had it wirse than i did, but i was sicker
the other way.

he sed that all the docters had been up day
and nite and always were buzy when there was a
chirch picknic. he sed that if he had his way chirch
picknics wood not be aloud enny more than prize
fites and cock fites. he sed that the peple were prety
mad with me and thougt i done it purpose, but he
told them if i had done it a perpose i woodent have
been fool enuf to tuch the ivory myself, whitch was
prety good for the docter. ennyway i give him
plenty of biziness. i suppose i hadent augt to have
sed what i did about Missis Shatucks legs and old
Misses Peezleys fit, but i aint sorry for what i sed
about the old decon swaring. i hadent done nothing.
jest cougt a eal. i must have left him in the boat.
gosh when i get well enuf to go down to the boat he
will be