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drove me from coopers
to main street down
by the bank in 6 min
pretty good time for a
pony well when we
got here it was just
20 min to five & I
was supposed to be
here at five gosh but
I was mad

Sun Apr. 29, 1917
Bright & fair.
Nothing much today.

Mon. Apr 30, 1917
Rained last night.
Hershey & I were going
up on the castill road
& get some snakes to bring
up to school & sare the girls
or something but because
it was wet outdoors we
dident go. We are going
tomorrow I guss.

Tonight I rode
Georg Henshaws
Bike out past neom'ses
& he had to go home because
he forgot to feed
his chickens &
so I had to get off &
hoof it & Keny got off
his old bike & walked
beside me. You know
yesterday morning an
old man gave Keny a
bicycle & the frame
is broken. it has a
good coster & whele &
tires & handelebars
& grips & pedals &
a good chain. When
they built the state
road here they left
2 old tarbarrels
& some [peles?] of gravel paint
beside the road.
Wall I pulled
the plug out and
let a lot of tar