a record
that he can be proud of. he says i can be champeen
if i only try hard.

i never know whether father is goking or not,
but i think this time he must be goking. ennyway
it wasent becaus i et two mutch that made me sick,
it was becaus i got poizoned by poizen ivory leeves
and that stuffed up my stomack. if it hadent been
for that i bet i woodent have been sick. then going
so long without ennything to eat and wirking hard
dident do me enny good. they are still mad with
me. i am sorry now i sed what i did. when a
feller has lade between life and deth for 3 days he
looks at things diferent from what they wood if
he was well and was going round with fellers like
Pewt and Beany and Whach and Fatty and Pop and
Medo and Tady and Skinny and fellers like them.

So i have been thinking over what i have did and
sed and i am very mutch ashaimed of myself. if
enny other feller had went and sed things about
my mother and sister or about aunt Sarah and my
father that i sed about old Rody Shatuck and Misses
Peezley and Decon Aspinwall i wood have felt like
giving him a bang in the snoot. i wood have did it
if he wasent two big, and if he was i wood have
triped him up sum nite with a roap or plunged him
with ripe tomatose or rotten egs when he had got
on his best close.

but i needent be afraid that ennyone wood say ennything
against my folks becaus they dont have fits
and dont run round after ministers and dont hold
up their skerts xcept when there is a mouse round
and that is always at home where peeple cant see
them. so i shant have to bat ennyone for that but
that dont make enny difference becaus i have did
rong.

so i have thougt it over and last nite when the
band was playing departed days and the romance
from Leclare in the band room i desided i wood
wright a letter to all the peeple i had sassed and
beg their pardon. it is prety tuff to do it but it
aint haff as tuff as being snaiked rite up befoar
them by your father and made to beg their pardon.
i have had to do this quite a number of times. so
this morning when i woke up and had brekfast i
remembered what i desided and i went up to my room
and rote a lot of letters to peeple. i gess when
father finds it out he will think i am prety good
feller after all.

it took me a long time to do it and i hated to
waist the time becaus it is prety near the last weak
of vacation but i gnew i wood feel beter when i
had done it and i done it. this is what i rote to