rry for you.

yours verry respectively
Harry Shute

there i think she will be verry mutch pleesed when
she gets that leter. she wont think i am the wirst
boy in town.

this is the letter i rote to Rhody Shatuck.

Missis Rody Shatuck
Exeter New Hampshire
dear Missis Shatuck. I am verry sorry for hollering
to Beany at the picknic last weak about your
skinny legs. i woodent have did it if i had been
well, but i had been poizened by poizen ivory leeves
and the minister had cheeted me out of my fifty
cents and everybody had jawed me becaus i cougt
a eal and so i done it. if you had a hair lip or a
squint ey or a wenn on your neck like old Nat
Mason it woodent be so bad but it is a dredful
thing to have such skinny legs as you have got and
i am verry sorry for you becaus i have got skinny
legs myself and the fellers have made fun of me
ever since i can remember and it is awful to be made
fun of all the time. if i was a girl i cood cover them
up with my skert and nobody wood know they was
skinny unless i fell down or the wind blew two
hard or i pulled up my skert like you done at the
picknic.
so if i was you i wood be very cairful not to pick
up your skert like you done at the picknic and nobody
will know how skinny your legs is. sumtimes
i wish fellers wore skerts but i gess i would
ruther have skinny legs. so pleese to forgive me
for what i done.

yours very respectively
Harry Shute.

this is the leter i rote to the minister.

the referent minister of
the ferst Congrigasionel Chirch
dear sir. i thougt i wood wright you and tell you
how sorry i am that i sed the sassy things to you
whitch i sed at the picknic last weak. i am also
verry sorry indeed that i douted your word when
you sed you wood give me the fifty cents. if you
had been ennything but a minister i wood not have
thougt you wood cheet me but i have heard my
father say that ministers has so many things give
to them and has so many old mades and fulish
wimmen after them that they aint mutch to blaim
if they forgets sumthings whitch they hadent augt
to forget. you see i dident know you verry well
and i thought you mite be one of them kind of
ministers but i found out that you wasent when you
paid me the fifty cents and done as you agreed when
you promised not to grab me and lam time out of
me. i was reddy for you and if you had grabed that
boat i wood probly have rew so hard tha