ng every time. i sung it jest enuf rong to
make you feel crepey in your back, and father said if you cant sing
better then that you had better shet up. so i shet up.

Oct. 13. clowdy but no rane. Georgie has lerned a new tune. it is i wood
i were a fary queen. we are going to have the minister to supper and
father is going to make Keene and Cele and Georgie show of. i hate
showing of. ennyway i havent got to show of becaus father says i cant
sing. i can sing but he dont know it you bet.

Oct. 14. rany and windy. i have got a sore throte. father dident want to
have the minister to supper. he said to mother, what in thunder do you
want a minister for, and mother said, we must have him becaus he will
think it very queer if we dont, only you must be careful not to say or
do ennything queer, and father he said he wood keep his eye peeled, but
he told mother she must look out for the children.

Oct. 15. still rany, my throte is beter. we are going to have chicking
for supper when the minister comes. tonite father brought some new
goblets from boston. mother and aunt Sarah wirked all day making pies
and cake. then mother let me lite a paper and hold the chickings over it
to burn of the little fethers and hairs i like it becaus it smels like
thanksgiving only i burnt my hand and it smelt jest like the chicking
but i dident like that you bet.

Oct. 16, 186- today the hole town was full of ministers, most of them
had long tailed coats and white necktis. Deekon Gooch came down to the
house with 2 of them. aunt Sarah was wating in her best dress and when
she saw them coming she said Murder Joanna they is 2 of them, what shall
we do, and mother said, mercy sakes what will George say. well the bell
rung and i went to the door and asked them in and Deekon Gooch said
they was Mister Fernald and Mister Robinson, he said they was his
brothers. then Deekon he went off and i showed them to the front room up
stairs and one of them asked me if i loved the lord and i said yes sir
and he said i was a good boy. and then he asked me if i went to church
and sunday school and i said yes sir and he asked me what was the tex
last sunday and i said i dident know what tex ment and he said what did
he prech from and i said he preeched from the pulpit in church and from
the platform in sunday school, and Mister Fernald he began to laff and
Mister Robinson he said i woodent laff if i was you brother, and then he
said what does the minister say after t