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The diary of Edwin Marshall Clarke (1917) follows the day-to-day happenings of a twelve year old boy's life in New York during the penultimate year of World War I. Edwin narrates his somewhat troubled adolescence through the lenses of his social life, home life, and formal education, and provides political commentary in the midst of the war.

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just jumped & old jap rood opened the door & we went over to punkins but we dident have time to go over so we went up a little further to our hole. It looks just like the fence but if you pull it it opens & you can get out. After that we waited up in punkins barn & shot at some old plugs that went by. Once Bud took an old horse in the belly & it jumped & started to run & we could hear the old man hollering whoa whoa there. Gosh but it was funny I shot at a horse & bud hit the gun & it hit roods cat. I bet the cat jumped 2 times as high as the chicken & its feet were going before it toached the ground. then we put a piece of soap up to peckys barn on a stick & plugged at it with the Daisy Pump gun. It isnt as powerful as the king air rifle

Once while we was pluggin at roods chickens It was my shot & just then peckys ant came out & said What are you boys doing & I said quick Shooting at a target & I pounted up in the tree & shot O I said I hit I hit it see if you can bud. Well we kept it up & finally she went in it was a

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pretty close show the carpenters have got a lot more done today on the extension of the front porch

May 8, 1917 I got the record of my class in school today. I added an example 8 figers across & 5 down in 20 sec. pretty good for me. I love arithmetic but I just hate English. I dont know beans about English & I dont care to learn. It is too hard. Clowdy

May 9, 1917 Rained a little last night & It was awful cloudy all day. All the shingles are laid on the front roof I only shot [16?] paper wads in school today.

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