right. i shall never be half as good as Ike. i wonder if old Swane
and old Kize have caught that man yet.

Mar. 16. Pewt dreened 18 marbles and 2 chinees out of me to-day. we
was playing first in a hole. school today. sailed boats in the brook
in J. Albert Clark's garden and got pretty wet.

Mar. 17. Scott Briggam has got some little flying squirrels. he is
going to get me one for thirty-five cents. i am going to take it out
of my cornet money.

Mar. 18. Father wont let me play marbles in ernest. it aint enny fun
dreening a feller and then giving them back. i bet father didnt when
he was a boy.

Mar. 19. Scott Briggam brought my squirrel today and i paid him 35
cents, 3 ten cents scrips and five cents. i have got it in a bird
cage.

Mar. 20. my squirrel got out of the cage last nite and father found
him in the water pail drownded. father got up in the night and got a
dipper and drank some water out of that pail, he dident eat any
brekfast because he was thinking that the squirrel might have been
in the pail then. i wonder if it was. ennyway 35 cents of my cornet
money has gone up.

Mar. 23. school today. went down to Pewts to draw pictures. Charlie
Woodbury can draw the best, then Pewt, and then me. Beany dont like
to draw. we was talking about what we was going to be when we grew
up. Charlie Woodbury is going to be a picture painter, Pewt is