i went in swiming 4 times
today. i coodent go in while my arm was sore. Annie is most well but
cross as time.
June 29. brite and fair. i went in swiming 5 times today. tomorow me and
Pewt is going pikerilling. Pewt is a good feller to fish. fourth of July
is coming next week.
June 30. today me and Pewt went fishing. We got Charles Flanders little
blew bote. it is the esiest bote to row i ever rowd. Pewt cougt 4
pikeril and 5 kivies and 3 pirch. i cougt 2 pikeril and 2 kivies and 4
pirch and 1 sucker. we cougt sum minnies and shiners for bate but we
dident call them ennything. we div of the bank at the eddy, once Pewt
sliped and come down all guts, it nocked the wind all out of him.
July 1. brite and fair. today is the first day of July, and we had my
fish fride for brekfast.
July 2. brite and fair. i bougt 5 bunches of snapcrackers and 2 bunches
of canon crackers and sum slow mach and put them in a box in my room.
tomorow is the nite before fourth. Pewt is going to have a pistol and
Beany a canon. father he says if he hears of me fooling with a gun he
will lick me and send me to bed for a week. ennyway he dident say
ennything about a pistol or a canon.
July 3. gosh i was scart today. this morning i went up to my room to
look at my snap crackers. i got the box on the floor and was counting
them when i looked out of the window. i saw old Miss Hartnett hanging
out sum close on the line, i thougt i cood make her gump and i wanted to
try jest one canon cracker to see if they was good ones.
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