. bimeby a man come in and said
that the naval oficer wanted to see father and father took the picture
and went in. bimeby he came back and said the naval oficer jawed him and
then he looked at the picture and laffed and said he wanted the picture
and he took it and told father he had better shet that boy up. then it
was dinner time and we went out and et dinner at a resterrant. i had
meat and bread and coffy. after dinner we went back to the offise and a
man come in and asked who was mister Shute and father said he was and
the man said are you the man whitch put a old man on the trane at the
depo and father said yes and i thougt the man wood give father a hundred
dolars or a gold wach and father looked as if he thougt the man wood say
noble man you have saved my fathers life, but the man looked mad and
said well sir you did a prety smart thing to throw a helpless old man on
to the rong trane and send him of 100 miles away from home and scart all
his peeple most to deth becaus they thougt he was merdered and cost him
3 dolars to telegraf and stay all nite and if you dont know more then
that you had beter soke your head. father he said what was the old fool
trying to get on the trane for if he dident want to go on it, and the
man he said he was trying to get of the trane and you woodent let him
and the man holered so loud that evrybody cood hear him and shook his
fist and went of swaring feerful. then Mr. Pope he said o what a fall
was there my countrymen just like what was in the fourth reader and Mr.
Davis he said immortal seezer ded and tirned to clay, that is in the
fourth reader two. then all the men laffed and said the treat is on you
George and father he laffed two and said he wood be cussed, and he said
that is what a man got by not tending to his own bizness. tonites paper
had a peace in it about father and said the old man whitch father put on
the rong trane was going to be marrid and his girl got mad becaus he
dident come and marrid another man whitch was there and the old man was
going to sew father for braking up the mach. father said he bet Ben
Ridwill and Jaky Howe rote it for the paper and he wood fix them.

Sept. 3. brite and fair. sunday today but father dident go to walk. he
was prety cross two. Beany got sent out of sunday school for raising
time. after he went out he clim up to the window and made up feerful
faces at us. mister Erl the suprintendunt was jest going to make a
prayer and see us laffin an