said if he was her he
wood go rite down and see there fathers. when me and Beany heard that we
clim over Nat Weeks fence esy and put for home. when we got there they
was nobody in Beanys kichen and we went in esy and got the sweet firn
and begun to make sweet firn segars. bimeby we heard old Missis Sawyer
blabing to Beanys mother and she said she wood go in and see if Elly was
in and when she come in Beany said mother jest see how many segars me
and Plupy has made and he held up a lot that we made last week and she
said you boys must have wirked a long time and Beany he said it takes a
good deal of time to make so many and she went back looking prety
pleased becaus she thougt Beany dident ring the old doorbell and she
told old Missis Sawyer that we had been making sweet firn segars all the
evening in the kitchin. so old Missis Sawyer went home kind of mad
becaus it wasent me and Beany whitch rung her doorbell ennyway she
thougt it wasent.

Aug. 22. brite and fair.

Aug. 23. brite and fair. tonite me and Pewt and Beany and Fatty Gilman
and Fatty Melcher and Billy Swett and Gim Erly and lots of the fellers
come up and plaid i spy the bull. one feller lays it and he shets his
eyes at the gool and counts fifty and the rest of the fellers go and
hide and when he has counted fifty he trys to find the fellers and tag
his gool before they do. they is a stick leening agenst the gool and if
one of the fellers can get to the gool ferst he can plug the stick as
far as he can and the feller whitch is laying it has to run and get the
stick and go back to the gool and leeve the stick there before he can
find enny more fellers and if enny fellers has been cougt they can hide
agen. so tonite we plaid it til nine oh clock and i had laid it most an
hour when Pewt pluged the stick and hit old Bill Morril rite in the head
jest as he came round the corner and he was mad as time and we put for
home jest lively. Pewt dident meen to do it. Bill hadent aught to have
been coming round the corner jest then ennyway. Bill told father they
was the tufest set of boys in the naborhood he ever see. i was behind
the current buches when Bill told father this and he showed father his
old plug hat whitch was all dented in. father he said well Bill we usted
to make things prety lively when we was boys. then he told Bill that he
usted to ask his father if he cood go over and sleep with Gim Melcher
and his father wood say yes, and Gim Melcher he wood ask his