but woodent let me
eat the bananner. i dont know what she done with
it. i supose sumone et it. enyway i dident.

Aug. 30 186---today i went out in the yard. it
was brite and fair all day. lots of the felers come
up and had a tirnament. first they had a match
throwing green apples on a stick. Puzzy Chadwick
throwed the furtherest. he threw one from my
yard across the high school yard and it went throug
a window in old Heads cariage shop. it was so far
that when the men in that room piled out swaring
they dident supose it was one of us and thy swore
at John Toomy and 2 other fellers in the school
yard.

Pewt was the next best. perhaps it wood have
went as far as Puzzys but sumthing stoped it. what
stoped it was a mans head. i dont know who the
man was but when that apple hit him rite on the
back of his head he throwed down sum boards he
was luging into the shop and clim the fense and
chased John Toomey and the 2 other felers way
down south street. i gess he dident catch them
becaus he swore so when he come back and if he had
cougt them and licked them he wood have felt better.
men always do.

so we dident throw enny more apples. so then
we had sum rassels and the twin Browns and Potter
Goram had a mach wigling their scalps and ears.
Harry Brown beat on a scalp wigling and Potter on
ear wigling. the 2 Chadwicks Puzzy and Bug fit
again and neether licked.

then we had a spitting match. Ed Tole beat. he
always does. then mother come out and sed i had
been out long enuf. so i went in. i had a pretty
good day.

September 1. brite and fair. it seams bully to
be well again and to see the fellers and to go in
swimming and fishing. i havent went in swimming
or fishing since i have ben sick but i am going in in
a day or too. i can eat things now whitch is better
than enything. a feller cant do mutch unless he has
a good apetite. father says there is one thing whitch
has kept me back all these years. he sed that if i had
had a beter apetite when i went to that picknic i cood
have et nine pecks of stuff insted of only five. he
sed he wood have to get the doctor to give me a
tonick the nex picknic time so that i can do a gob
that will be a credit to the family. he sed enny
healthy boy witch can go to a chirch picknic and
only eat 5 meesly pecks of food aint doing jestice to
himself or his frends and he hoaps i will do beter
nex time. he says he dont want me to make a hog
of myself but he does want me to make