over and i said hullo
Beany come and have a drink and a cigar. so Beany he took a glass and
drunk it and lit a cigar, a sweet firn one and said how is trade, and i
said they is quite a little stiring, and he said have you got mutch
stock and i said most sold out but they is plenty more where that come
from and Beany he said dont you want to by my stuff and i said no i gess
not. bimeby Beany he said less make up Plupy and i said i aint mad and
Beany he said well let the old sine rip and so he went over and got his
stuff and pinned it up and we had a good trade all the afternoon. tonite
we made cigars and flyboxes and snappers. Beany is a prety good feller
to have a store with only he smokes and drinks two mutch.

Mar. 16. Brite and fair. i saw a blewbird today. Beany come over erly
and we had a good trade. Beany smoked so many sweet firn cigars and
drank so mutch sweatened water that i told him he coodent be my pardner
unless he smoked cheeper cigars and only drank 4 glasses a day. 2 in the
morning and 2 in the evening. that is enuf for enny man.

Mar. 17. Rany today. not mutch trade. Pewt and Nipper has got a store in
Pewts shed. Tomtit says he has got beter things than we have and he got
all the fellers to go up there. Tomtit was mad becaus we woodent take
sheet iron for pay. you cant get ennything for sheet iron down to old
Getchels and if we took it for pay enny feller cood go out and pick up a
old stove pipe and buy out your store.

Mar. 18. brite and fair. no i mean it is clowdy. Beany is acting prety
queer. he has been talking with Pewt, and last nite he promised to come
over and make cigars and he dident come and Nipper said Beany was over
to Pewts. today he was prety sassy and said he would drink all the
sweatened water he wanted. he was away all the afternoon.

Mar. 19. Beany dident make up enny faces behind the organ today. after
church i holered at him and he woodent look round. i bet he is going to
keep store with Pewt. i dont care.

Mar. 20. Beany came over this morning and said he was going to be
pardner with Pewt and he wanted his stuff and his half of the iron and
nails. I told him he was a mean cuss and he said he woodent be pardner
with a feller whitch woodent let him drink and smoke out of the store.
he said Pewt wasent so mean as all that. so we divided the stuff and
Beany wanted half of what nails and iron i had taken before we were
pardners. he dident get it you bet, and he dident get enny swe