got chicken pocks. i gess i have been in the hen koop to mutch.

Jan. 16. the speckles have all gone of. doctor Perry says i et to
many donuts.

Jan. 18. brite and fair. yesterday to and day before yesterday i
have forgot.

Jan. 19. snowed all day. Me and Beany is mad.

Jan. 20. father is sick becaus he et to mutch salt fish and potato
and pork. he is auful cross and hit me a bat today becaus i left the
door open. i gess he will be sorry when i am ded.

Jan. 21. brite and fair. went to church in the morning and in the
afternoon greeced some paper and trased some pictures.

Jan. 22. i had to stay in the wood-box today for whispering to
Whacker with the cover down. i like it becaus they is a peep hole in
the box and you can see the fellers and they cant see you. by and by
Gimmy Fitsgerald whispered and old Francis put him in to and we
took turns peeping.

Jan. 23. it raned hard all day and we had one sesion. Beany came
over and we made up and plaid in the barn making fly boxes.

Jan. 24. nothing much today, rany in the morning and froze at night.

Jan. 25. brite and fair. everything was covered with ice and when
father started for the depot he tumbled down the front steps from