evrybody
said the old man wood be killed if it hadent been for father.
Aug. 31. i bet Beanys father never saved a mans life. i bet Pewts never
did neether. i asked father if he xpected the old man to give him a good
deel of mony for it or a gold wach, and father he said the conscenceless
of having did a noble act is enuf reward. Gosh if i had saved a old mans
life i wood have made him pay me. i wood have grabed him and said old
man pay me 2 dolars or of goes your hind legs. i realy woodent let him
drop but i wood have scart him til he give me 2 dolars. father he said
that wood be hyway robery. i dont care.
Sept. 1. brite and fair. they was a peace in the Boston paper today
about father. it said heroik rescu of a old man and it told about father
saving the old mans life. lots of peeple spoke to father about it.
father walked down town tonite 3 times. he most never goes down. father
is going to take me to Boston tomorow if i behaive myself and dont do as
i did before.
Sept. 2, 186- i had to get up feerful erly this morning. after brekfast
me and father rode up to the depo in Joe Parmers hack. while we was
wating for the trane Charles Talor and Charles Gray and all the fellers
began to pich into father jest fun like and father got the best of them
evry time. You cood here them holler about a mile. then the trane come
and we piled in. evrybody knowed father and called him George and
evrybody piched into him and he ansered back so that he made evrybody
laff.
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