d yes sir. then he sed awful stern do you meen
to tel me that your sister Celia---and jest then
mother she come in and sed i am afrade mister Barrows
that we hadent aught to disturb our pashent
too long. he isent verry strong yet.

and he said that is true Misess Shute but he has
made some staitments about this improper book that
i think it is my duty to look into and he held up
Wild Mag the Trapers Bride and mother she sed it
seems as if Mr. Shute and i are compitent to deside
what our children are to read.

and he sed but my dear Misses Shute this is a
verry improper book indeed and mother she sed have
you read it and he sed god forbid i wood not disgraice
my inteligents by reading sutch a book, and
my mother she sed how do you know then it is a
impropper book without reading it? and he sed
how can a bok of the naim of Wild Mag the Trapers
Bride be a good book and mother she sed she had
read it and there was nothing impropper at all in it.

i dident know she had read it so when the minister
had went off kind of stiflegged i asted her if she
dident thing it was a riping story and she sed no she
dident see how i cood read it but she had read it to
see if there was ennything impropper in it and they
wasent. she sed she only read it to see if there was
ennything really rong in it. she dont care for sutch
stories i am afrade. then she asted if i wanted
ennything and i sed no and she went down stairs.
then when she had went i clim out of bed and waived
my hand to Ed and Gimmy and they come out with
their rosters under their arms and set them a going
and they hadent made more than a dozen gumps at
eech other when in come old mother Moulton with
sum gelly and custerd for me and she stoped the fite
and jawed the boys and asted them if they dident
know enny beter than to have a rooster fite in the
yard of a poar boy whitch had nearly dide only a
few days ago and Ed and Gimmy sed no mam we
dident know he had been so sick and we woodent
have did it and they picked up their roosters and
went home and i skiped into bed prety lively for a
boy whitch had nearly dide a few days ago. so
when she come up i was in bed and i et the custerd
and part of the gelly and it was bully. i wish she
hadent come so soon. that wood have been a good
rooster fite.

i set up most haff of the time today. tomorrow
i am going downstairs. Fatty Gilman come down
today and brought me 2 oranges and a red bananner.
mother let me eat the oranges