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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.