there dos'nt seem to be much to put into a diry only fites and who
got licked at school and if it ranes or snows, so i will begin
today.

December 1, 186- brite and fair, late to brekfast, but mother dident
say nothing. father goes to boston and works in the custum house so
i can get up as late as i want to. father says he works like time,
but i went to boston once and father dident do anything but tell
stories about what he and Gim Melcher usted to do when he was a
boy. once or twice when a man came in they would all be wrighting
fast, when the man came in again i sed why do you all wright so fast
when he comes in and stop when he goes out, and the man sort of
laffed and went out laffing, and the men were mad and told father
not to bring that dam little fool again.

December 2. Skinny Bruce got licked in school today. I told my
granmother about it and she said she was glad i dident do enything
to get punnished for and she felt sure i never wood. i dident tell
her i had to stay in the wood box all the morning with the cover down,
i dident tell father either you bet.

December 2. rany. i forgot to say it raned yesterday too. i got cold
and have a red rag round my gozzle.

December 2. pretty near had a fite in schol today. Skinny Bruce
and Frank Elliot got rite up with there fists up when the bell rung.
it was two bad, it wood have been a buly fite. i bet on Skinny.

December 3, 186- brite and fair. went to church today. Me and Pewt
and Beany go to the Unitarial church. we all joined sunday school to