coodent
hold my breth more than 1 minit and as soon as i let out my breth down i
went unless i kep my hands moving. so what the man whitch rote that book
said aint so unless asistance comes in 1 minit.

July 22. brite and fair and hot as time. Pewt thinks he is going to beat
me swiming. i gess he will find out.

July 23. today was sunday and i coodent practise swiming or diving, darn
it.

July 24. brite and fair. i only went in swiming 2 times today, once this
morning and once this afternoon, but i staid in all the morning and all
the afternoon so i coodent go in more then 2 times. the race is day
after tomorow.

July 25. brite and fair. today we went up to Pewts and we aranged about
the prises. Pewt was to give the prises. the prise for swiming fast was
a bag of erly apples from Pewts garden. the prise for swiming under
water was a gewsharp and the prise for the best diver was a cain fishing
pole and the prise for floteing was a arrow rifle. we all give 5 cents
eech to buy the cain pole. the gewsharp was one whitch Pewt had and the
arrow rifle Pewt had made. So Pewt he said as long as he give 2 of the
prises he was to have the say about whitch beat.

July 26. brite and fair. the fellers plaid a meen trick on me today. the
meenist i ever see. i wont ever speak to enny of them agen. this morning
we had the race. ferst we had the fast race. we started at the oak and
swum down to the gravil. i was as far as from here to Beanys house
ahead. so i got the apples. Fatty Melcher was next and Pewt was next and
Beany and Fatty Gilman got tired and went ashore. next we had the
floteing mach. Fatty Gilman floted the longest and then Beany becaus he
was fat two and then Pewt and then Fatty Melcher and then me. i was the
wirst and the fellers all howled at me. so Fatty Gilman he got the arrow
rifle. i dont cair. then we went back to the oak to have the diving
mach. after we had div Beany and Fatty Melcher they said i div the best
and Pewt and Fatty Gilman said Pewt div the best. then Pewt giv himself
the prise becaus he had the say. i was prety mad. then we went down to
the gravil to have the swiming under water mach so i went ferst and i
swum from the going in place on Moltons field to the elm tree on old Nat
Gilmans side and when i come up and looked round they wasent enny feller
ennywhere. so i swum back prety lively and my close was gone and the
apples and the gewsharp and the fellers two. so i dident know what to
do. i th