edwin-diary

peanuts to celebrate all my debts being paid off I was sick monday morning. Last Period Lloyd Davis cut up so that miss Fellows made him go over to the other side of the room & he stuck his foot out & accidentally kicked Miss Fellows in the shin & she shook him up just as some visitors came at the door. the Visitors saw her shake him up. I bet she feel funny. Lloyd Davis & Charles Fines read. every note that comes along but I dont. When I send notes to anybody I have to throw them over to the other aisles so Charles & Lloyd wont read them.

I think [illegible] [illegible] is a pretty good girl all right. Fair today kind of cloudy

Apr. 27, 1917 I went to the show tonight Youth companion came today

Apr. 28, 1917 this morning dony [swung?] an old battery & hit me in the ribs & I [swung?] it at him & he stooped over & it took him in the head & bounced just exactly 4 1/32" I measured it to see Worked until 3 this aft & went down to coopers with curly Fines & shot an English sparrow with punkins bb gun The watch said 15 min to five so punkin latched up his pony quick &

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

in the ditch. Then we put a lot of gravel into the crick for the dam. We did it just for the excitement of it. We kids dont get much excitement any more. Sunshine this aft

May. 1, 1917 Fair. Tonight dony & I went in the pantry for something to eat & I saw a little mouse & I got a paper bag & then dony scared it out of severel places & I would grab for it but I couldent get it & finally dony got his knee up against the wall & I scared the mouse out behind the door & it ran right in donys knee & he grabbed it & put it in the bag & we showed it to mama & Mrs Whitehill & then we drowned it I got only 1 may basket tonight. punkin hung it to me & I couldent cath him running so I had to wind him That means that I chased him till he was all tired out & then jump on him & sit on him till I got my breath.

Apr. 2, 1917 Cold & windy. Hershy & I went fishing tonight & dident get a nibble. There was an old dogs pelt up behind a stump up by the culvert & we therew it in the outlet & plugged rocks at it. There are lots of worms in our henyard

May. 3, 1917. I must be getting to be a regular Sunday School boy now. I only had to go back & walk up the Stairs right once & I only had to repent to 2 teachers out of 12 I am lucky today I guss

May 4, 1917 Gosh! today I came home [crick?] way & Gorden wampool & Leonard Fines were down there pluggin rocks at the bank I said I’ll double dare you to plug at the old man & I threw a sailer & he said hollered that it took him right on the knee & there was 2 women standing right in the door &who saw me throw it & I told him that they were seeing things [illegible] they had had one to many. I knew that he wouldent tell proff because he Blew so much. Whenever a man blows off steam & swares at you & tells you that he will tell proff or somebody why you dont have to Be Afraid of him at all because it is always the way with those kind. Why when Jack wilson first came here he put up the best bluff I ever see untill I got in a fight with him & Lammed time right out of him Nobody who hardly dared to fight

with me after that till they got jacks number.

Sat May 5, 1917 just as I thought It snowed this morning & it was all slush out doors & I had to stay in the house all day I couldent even go over to peckys barn & box with punkin bud & the kids. pretty tough on me.

Sun May 6, 1917 It cleared up a little today.

Mon May 7, 1917 I never see a chicken jump so high as I did today. tonight after school Punkin got his pump B.B gun & we went over where the orchard used & plugged through a knothole at the chickens. We took turns & we would wait for a chicken to turn its head away from us & then we would plug. it would hit & go thump & the chicken would hiper into the chicken house pretty lively. but once there was a young chicken & punkin took a shot & the chicken jumped 6 or 7 feet. It jumped higher than our head & landed on its head & acted as if it was dizzy & fell down then it got up & went into the henhouse & made an awful noise just when I hit another one it