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shute did. He was awful funny
All the doorbells around
here are so that you have
to go up and press a button
or turn a knob. so as
you cant tie a string to 'em
and pull them. Four
or five years ago
the drifts up to the
field were 2 or 3 times
as high as they ever
are now. My Mother
Sometimes is preaty
meen because I have to
hook my bathing suit
to go in swimming
and I am scared stiff
because I am afraid
that my brother would
see me and tell mama
that I was in swimming
Sometimes I have it
pretty tough like when
I got a new pair of stock
ings. Hambone, Punkin and
me went up to the [illegible]
to get some willow
lances and I had my new
stockings on. I stepped
on a stick sticking about
half way up to my knee
and I stepped on it
and tore about 1 square
foot out of my stockings
I did that before
thanksgiving and
they dont know it yet
you bet. If it had been
somebody else it
wouldent have happened

Fri. Jan 26, 1917
Cold and windy, I went
to the show tonight
part of it was awful
funny. There a rich
New Yorker who wanted
to buy some land from
a dutchman in Pennsylvania,
but the Dutchman wouldent