und sum vines with
shiny leaves and a lot of yeller dazies and sum cardinel
flowers and the wimmen made reaths of them
one for eech plait on the table.

while we was doing this sum more people come
and they began to make reaths and i helped them.
bimeby we had enuf and we went back to the picknic
with our arms full. when we got there they
was a big crowd round sumthing on the ground and
we run up and found that Beany had fell out of a
swing and had hit on his head. he swang the
higest of enyone when he fel out and if he hadent
hit on his head it wood have killed him. it made
him kind of squint eyd for a while and his head was
on one side for 2 or 3 days but it dident hurt him.

miss Lewccretia Baley had spraned her anckle by
steping in a hole and had to set with her anckle
rapped up in a shorl. but i notised she et as mutch
as ennyone, and Tommy Tomson had got a fishhook
in his leg and had to have it cut out. evryone was
having a good time and i cood smell the coffy.

after Beany was pernounced out of dainger and
was able to crawl round and drink about 3 glases
of lemonaid before dinner was ready, sum fellers
is pigs ennyway, i had to row sum moar peeple up
river for sum cardinel flowers. before i done this
i got them to give me 2 creem cakes and a peace of
blewberry pie. i aint like Beany always waiting to
eat without wirking for it. a feller has to eat in
order to wirk good.

well when i had et them i rew the people up river
and when they wood see a cardinel flower they wood
holler to me and i wood row the boat up to the place
where the cardinel flower was and they wood pick it
and holler over it and then we wood go on. the
river was kind of low and the banks were steep and
slipery where the cardinel flowers grew and Charlie
Lane, the feller whitch was in the boat, had on sum
white britches and we had got enuf and was going
back when one of the wimmen sed oh see that splended
one we must have that one. so i rew up and
Charlie got out and clim up and got the flower
whitch was a big one 2 or 3 feet above the water.
when Charlie got it he turned round and sed

the rose is red the vilet blew
the pink is sweet and---

and his hels flew up and he set down in the slipery
mud and slid rite into the water, that is his hine legs
went in to his gnees but he grabed the boat and that
stoped him. his white britches were wet and covered
with green slime to his gnees and the seat of
his britches was black with