father if
he cood go over and sleep with father and Gims father wood say yes, and
they wood stay out all nite and raise time, and Gims father he wood
think Gim was over to fathers house, and fathers father wood think
father was over to Gims house and so they woodent get cougt. that wood
be a prety good trick for me and Beany to try only father wood know two
mutch. i gess that is the reason father finds out so mutch about me
becaus he was prety tuf when he was a boy. i gess that is the reson why
ministers boys is most always tuf becaus there fathers dont know how to
find out what tuf things they do. i wish i was a ministers son so i cood
be tuf and not get found out, only i wood have to go to church 3 times
evry sunday.

Aug. 25. brite and fair. i wish i was ded. a feller might as well be ded
as to be getting licked all time for nuthing. tonite me and Beany wated
till it was dark and we saw Bill Greenlef go down town. then we tide a
string to his doorbell and hiched the other end to old printer Smiths
door on the other side of the street and hauled it tite. bimeby Bill he
come back and went in the side door. then a man came by driving a horse
and when the horse run agenst the string both doorbells rung before the
string broak and out come Bill and old printer Smith. when they found
they wasent ennyone there they was prety mad. Bill he run round looking
behind fences and trees and old printer he swoar terible and went
through Miss Sulivans and over to Nipper Browns and all round. me and
Beany was hiding in Ike Shutes porch. bimeby they come back and talked.
Bill said they must be 2 of them and old printer he said it was about
time this thing was stoped and he was going to find out who did it if it
took him all summer. well bimeby they went in to wate and see if ennyone
rung there doorbells sum more. Bill he said he wood leeve his door open
jest a little and old printer Smith he said he wood leeve his open jest
a little two so he cood gump out and lam time out of the feller whitch
rung his bell. well bimeby me and Beany crep out esy and hunted round
til we found the string and we tide it agen as tite as we cood and then
we crep back into the porch and peeked through the window. bimeby old
mister Lyford come up the sidewalk and when he come to the string it
gerked his old plug hat of and he picked it up and brushed it and then
went of. bimeby a hack came by and when it hit the string both door
bells gingled feerful and Bill