well
Nipper can do that sum and so he has got to show of. i havent got to do
ennything xcept to say my speach when old Francis gives me my prise,
whitch is prety good for me.
Mar. 4. Brite and fair. i am not fealing very well tonite. father dident
go to boston this morning but staid to home. this morning in school we
rehersed for xibision. Pricilla sung and plaid and Nipper rote down the
geese sum on the blackboard and rote his name under it jest as good as
he cood. i wanted to rite Nipper under it but old Francis wood paist
time out of me if he found out who rote it. you aught to hear Pricil
play and sing. he sings do your best for one another making life a
plesent dream, help a poor and weried brother puling hard agenst the
streem, and the old organ goes boom ya, boom ya, boom ya ya ya, that is
a prety song for a feller to sing whitch never will give the fellers the
core of his apple but always eats it hisself. well this afternoon i put
on my best close and my plad neckti and a new paper coller and went to
school erly. prety soon the people begun to come in. they was old Perry
Molton and old Nat Shute and Gewett Swazie the committy, and old Bil
Morrill with his hair curled under behind and Chick Chickerings father
and mother and docter Goram, Nippers father and mother and Pricillas
father and mother and lots of people and i thought father wasent coming
but bimeby he come in with his new britches that he made Erl and Cutts
give him and his boots blacked and aunt Sarah and Keene and Cele.
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