ll went to bed and i lay and laffed to think of father
tumbling over the chair and swaring. Ennyway the baby is all rite.

June 11. i hate to go to church. we have all got to be vaxinated. sum
peeple in the next town have got the small pocks. Beany has been and
Pewt two. Beany says the doctor takes a nife and cuts a hole in your arm
and then puts on a big scab whitch has come of somebodys arm whitch has
been vaxinated, and that stops the blud. but he says that if the scab
dont fit you bleed to deth. so i asked father about it tonite and he
said that Beany lied about it, but he says if you are vaxinated with
the scab of a redheaded person your hair will turn red, and if he has
warts or frekles you will have warts two and frekles. father said once
when he was a boy he knew a feller whitch was vaxinated with a scab of a
cock-eyed man and bimeby the feller began to squint and he kep on
squinting wirse and wirse and bimeby he was cock-eyed two. and father he
said he knew another feller whitch had a wooden leg and he sent his scab
to another feller to be vaxinated and that feller began to limp and he
always walked stifleged. i gess father was fooling. ennyway i hope i
shant be vaxinated with Skinny Bruces scab, becaus he is redheaded.
father he said he was going to get a scab of Horis Cobb for me and
perhaps i wood have a little fat on me and not be so spindel shanked. i
wish i cood get a scab of Gim Erly or Tady Finton and i cood lick time
out of Pewt.

June 12. brite and fair. Beany has a auful sore arm. he dont dass to
rassle or fite or do ennything.

June 13. brite and fair. Pewt has got one two. tomorrow nite the doctor
is coming.

June 15. brite and fair. last nite after super the doctor come and he
went into the parlor and father and mother and Cele and Keene and me and
Georgie and Annie and Frank and the baby was all in the setting room.
well ferst father went in and he was only in there a few minits and he
dident holler enny and then he come out laffing, and i asked him whose
scab he had and he said he dident know but it must have been from sum
minister becaus he had been thanking the lord it was all over. then
mother she went in and father told her he had got the scab of old Mike
Casey for her. mother is english and she dont like the irish and father
said it to plage her. well she went in and then Aunt Sarah went in and
Keene and Cele and they dident holler eether. then my tern came and i
went in and it dident h