i thought if i went up and told him he wood say, noble boy go to
your seat, i wont lick neether of you. anyway i knew that Cawcaw
wood tell on me, and so i told old Francis i hit Cawcaw first, and
old Francis said Harry i have had my eye on you for a long time, and
he jest took us up and slammed us together, and then he wood put me
down and shake Cawcaw and then he wood put Cawcaw down and shake me
till my head wabbled and he turned me upside down and all the
fellers looked upside down and went round and round and somehow i
felt silly like and kind of like laffin. i dident want to laff but
coodent help it. and then he talked to us and sent us to our seats
and told us to study, and i tried to but all the words in the book
went round and round and i felt awful funny and kind of wabbly, and
when i went home mother said something was the matter and i told her
and then i cried, i don't know what i cried for, becaus i dident
ake any. father said he wood lick me at home when i got licked at
school and perhaps that was why i cried. ennyway when father come
home i asked him if he was a going to lick me and he said not by a
dam sight, and he gave me ten cents and when i went to bed i got
laffin and crying all to once, and coodent stop, and mother set
in my room and kept her hand on my forred until i went to sleep.
i drempt i was fiting all the time. when i get big enuf there is
going to be a fite between me and old Francis, you see if there aint.

Jan. 2, Me and Beany has made up. i told him i had ten cents and
then he dident feel so big about his new shirt. ennyway we went down
to Si Smiths and got a dozen goozeberries and then went down to
doctor Derborns and got a glass of sody water and took turns
drinking it and seeing which cood gulp the loudest. Beany beat.

Jan. 3. brite and fair. Went down to Pewts tonite to make hayseed