now i lay me down to sleep. they was a lot of people sung together
and Mister Gale beat time. Charlie Gerish played the violin and Miss
Packerd sung. i was scart when Keene and Cele sung for i was afraid
they would break down, but they dident, and people said they sung
like night horks. i gess if they knowed how night horks sung they
woodent say much. father felt pretty big and to hear him talk you
wood think he did the singing. he give them ten cents
apeace. i dident get none. you gest wait, old man till i get my
cornet.

Went to a corcus last night. me and Beany were in the hall in the
afternoon helping Bob Carter sprinkle the floor and put on the
sordust. the floor was all shiny with wax and aufully slipery. so
Bob got us to put on some water to take off the shiny wax. well
write in front of the platform there is a low platform where they
get up to put in their votes and then step down and Beany said, dont
put any water there only jest dry sordust. so i dident. well that
night we went erly to see the fun. Gim Luverin got up and said there
was one man which was the oldest voter in town and he ought to vote
the first, the name of this destinkuished sitizen was John Quincy
Ann Pollard. then old mister Pollard got up and put in his vote and
when he stepped down his heels flew up and he went down whak on the
back of his head and 2 men lifted him up and lugged him to a seat,
and then Ed Derborn, him that rings the town bell, stepped up pretty
lively and went flat and swore terrible, and me and Beany nearly
died we laffed so. well it kept on, people dident know what made
them fall, and Gim Odlin sat write down in his new umbrella and then
they sent me down stairs for a pail of wet sordust and when i was
coming up i heard an auful whang, and when i got up in the hall they
were lugging old mister Stickney off to die and they put water on