ly xasted
becaus i am so thirsty my throat is dry. so they
give me a glas of lemonaid and a saucer of ice cream
and 2 peaces of cake and after i had et that i sed i
felt better and was ready to row them up. they
asted me how long it would taik and i sed if they
wood set so the boat wood run even i wood do it
prety quick. so they done as i sed and i rew steddy
by the gravil and the oak and the cove and the fishing
bank to the willows whitch is haff way and they give
me 2 glasses of lemonaid and when i had drank it
i started again and rew stedy till i got to the last tirn
when i passed Beany and the other boats that the
old pods were rowing.

when i went by Beany he sed i bet you havent been
way down to the worf old Plupe and the peeple in
my boat sed he surely has and the fat wimmen in
Beanys boat sed the nex time we come up we will
get him to row us and not you Elbrige. i sed to
myself low so they woodent hear me i bet you wont
if i can help it.

well i landed my peeple at the bank and luged
up their stuff befoar Beany got there. when he got
there a awful funny thing hapened. Beany he give
2 or 3 long stroaks to land the boat and he done it
pretty good for him. while the boat was running in
Beany balanced in the bow ready to gump out and
hold it. well when he done it and lifted the bow to
pull up the boat the stirn went down so far that the
water came over the side of the boat and the fat
wimmen were setting in about six inches of water.
well they screeched and tride to get up but they
was weged in so tite that they coodent till 2 of the
men gumped into the boat and yanked them up and
you augt to hear them lay into Beany. the back
of their dreses was sopping wet.

wel peeple had put up swings and fellers was pushing
girls in swings and runing under them and sum
were swinging in hammocks and sumone had bilt a
fire and sum were setting the tables and sum were
setting down on shorls and cushings and children
were playing copenhagin and going to Gerusalem
and it was a lively time.

i wanted to have sum fun but the minit i landed
2 wimmen that i had never saw befoar wanted me
to go out with them to get sum flowers and leeves
for their table and of coarse i had to go but as i was
prety well tuckered out i made them give me one
more glas of lemonaid and 3 sandwiches. that was
better than nothing and after i had drank it and et
them i was reddy and we went off in the boat. i rew
them across the river and we fo