going to be a lawyer, Potter Gorham and Chick Chickering are going
to stuff birds for a living, Beany is going to be a hack driver, Gim
Wingit is going to run a newspaper, Cawcaw Harding is going to be a
piscopal minister becaus he says they only have to read their
speaches out of a book, Nipper Brown is going to be a professer,
Priscilla Hobbs is going to play a organ in the baptis
church. Prisil can play 3 tunes now on a little organ. i am going to
be a cornet player like Bruce Briggam. cornet players can go to all
the dances and fairs and prosessions and are invited in and treated
when people are married and they serrinade them at night, and they
don't have to work either.

Mar. 25. almost as warm as summer, went to church and Sunday
school. Beany has got a job blowing the organ for Kate Wells. he
only let the wind go out 2 times today. it was funny becaus when the
organ stopped Mister Wood who was singing let out an auful hoot
before he knowed what he was doing Beany will lose his job if he
does it again.

Mar. 29, 186- The toads has come out. fine warm day. me and
Potter Gorham have been ketching toads this afternoon. they sit in
the pudles and peep. folks think it is frogs but most of it is
toads. Potter got 23 and i got 18. tonite i put my toads in a box
in the kitchen after the folks went to bed. in the night they all
got out of the box and began to hop round and peep mother heard it
and waked father and they lissened. when i waked up father was
coming threw my room with a big cane and a little tin lamp. he had
put on his britches and was in his shirt tale, and i said, what are
you going to lick me for now i havent done nothing and he said, keep
still there is some one down stairs and mother said dont go down