spises
pork &
lard
salt
butter
ham
eggs
&so

December 15. Fite at resess today, Gran Miller and Ben Rundlet.
Ben licked him easy. the fellers got to stumping each other to
fite. Micky Gould said he cood lick me and i said he want man enuf
and he said if i wood come out behind the school house after school
he wood show me and i said i wood and all the fellers hollered and
said they wood be there. But after school i thaught i aught to go
home and split my kindlings and so i went home. a feller aught to
do something for his family ennyway. i cood have licked him if i
had wanted to.

December 16. Tady Finton got licked in school today. snowed today
a little.

December 17. rained in the nite and then snowed a little. it was
auful slipery and coming out of church Squire Lane fell down whak
and Mr Burley cought hold of the fence and his feet went so fast
that they seemed all fuzzy, i tell you if he cood run as fast as
that he cood run a mile a minite.

December 18. brite and fair. nothing particilar. o yes, Skinny Bruce
got licked in school.