in auful smelly condition. i am sory i forgot
him.

Well i had to stay in bed 4 days. most of the time
i had web cloths on my head and coodent see nothing.
Cele come up and read Wild Mag the Trapers Bride
and a new novil Dair Devvil Dave the Dead Shot.
she oferred to read the 92th palsam to me but i told
her i dident feal strong enuf yet so she read 2 more
chapters of Dair Devvil Dave instead.

Beany come over with a tame rat tide with a
string. he wasent very tame and bit Beany 2
times. Potter Goram brogt his collexion of butterflise
and a live green snaik. mother woodent come
in until he put the snaik in his poket. the 2 Chadwicks
Puz and Bug came in twise and fit for me, in
the ferst fite Puzzy got a black ey and in the 2th
fite Bug got a bludy nose. they was good fites and
jest about even. i tell you they is always redy to
help a frend.

Ed Tole brougt up his rooster and had arainged
a fite with Gimmy Fitzgeralds rooster but jest as
they was going to set them a going the old minister
called to see if i was ded and when he found i wasent
he made a long call and praid fer me and told me i
had sinned deaply but wood be forgiven if i had
faith. all the time i cood see Ed and Gimmy peeking
round the corner of the barn and wateing till the
old minister had went so they cood have their rooster
fite. i was afrade they wood have it behine the
barn where i coodent see it and i thout that old minister
never wood go. while he was there he saw
the bible open to the 92th palsam and he sed it is
very grattifiing to me to see that you are reading the
bible and i sed i wasent reading it becaus i coodent
read ennything yet, but my sister Cele comes up and
reads to me and he sed she is a very good girl indeed
and i have heard she is very diffeernt from the rest
of the Shute family. i sed yes sir. then he looked
round some moar and found Wild Mag the Trapers
Bride whitch was rite on the table. i wood have hid
it only i coodent get it unless i piled out of bed and
i dident think it was proper to get up in my shert
tale befoar the minister. so i hoaped he woodent
see the novil but he did and he picked it up and
looked at it and read the naim and held it jest as if it
was a bull toad or a snaik and then he sed are you
reading this vile trash and i sed yes sir, and he sed
how cood you read it with your eyes swole up, and i
sed i cood see sum. he sed you jest told me you
coodent see to read. i dident know what to say so
i se