that was the way it was all the way to Boston. when we got to
Boston we went into a bird store and staid a while and then father took
me out to see a house with a canon ball in it where the british had
fired it in the revolution. then we went down to the custum house where
father wirks and father took of his coat and put on a thin coat and put
on sum cuffs made of pastbord and then he took out sum big books and
begun to wright. he give me a sheet of yellow paper and a pensil and
told me i cood draw sum pictures. when he come in one man holered hullo
George what are you going to do with the boy, drownd him, and father he
said no but i wood if he dident amount to more then you have, and then
that man he shet up and a nother man he holered George have you saved
enny more peeple and father he said no i had a chanse to but his name
was Mudge and i let them hang him, and then that man he shet up. his
name was Mudge two. bimeby a man come in with specks and side wiskers
and sum papers and a squint eye, and he come up to fathers desk and
father took the papers and wile he was wrighting i drawd the man with
his specks and his old side wiskers and his squint eye. when father had
fixed his papers the man said is that your boy mister Shute and he said
yes and the man said can he draw and father said yes and he took the
paper before i cood grab it and give it to the man and the man looked at
it and begun to look mad and father said what is it and he showed it to
father and then tore it up and went of mad.
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