edwin-diary

she just dropped in to see how things were going.

Well I thought that I would see some things going if she dropped through the ceiling ore someplace.

She has a habit of comeing in just when it is suppertime & staying to supper & not helping with the dishes.

Well, I ponnted my water pistol at her + said mony or your life & she said Oh, you woulden shoot your ant would you & then she laughed

When read & Leona came up for supper & I told them about it papa said she could see around a corner. You know she is awful crosseyed & read said that If I did shoot her he dident think it would go througher her she was so tough. I just had to laugh. This is a joke on me.

Read thinks he has the biggest feet in the whole family. He wares no. 9 shoes.

Well, today I went down town to get some shoes & guss the size 8 ½ – tremendous Gosh! I dident know I had such big feet. I telephoned up read & told him that he wasnt the only freak in the family

I got a new dollar ballmit today & I charged to pa but I pay him 25¢ per week for 4 weeks & it will be all right sereving hard labor at the church organ for 4 weeks. to bad

Mar. 25, 1917 Sunday read the rover boys in the moantains today & this afternoon Ed lathem & Buster Butts & peanut played ball nearly this all of this aft. I paid 25¢ tward my glove to pa today 75¢ more or 3 weeks hard labor at the church organ

Mar. 26, 1917 Awful warm. looks like rain tonight. Had a lot of fun today Yatskey peanut, punkin, Hearty Hambone, Hershy [palene?] Duffy Dorothy stark & Dorothy Olomsted and me had a Base ball game & had lots of fun.

Somebody lammed a fair ball & it hit dorothy stark in the hand with the glove on & somehow or other she hung onto it she made quite a few home runs. some player

Mar. 27, 1917 Awful rainy [illegible] last night but it cleared up in the morning & in the Afternoon it got cold & it hailed & it got colder & then it snowed. the hail was about as big as a marble After school I worked in the shop down in

basement & after a while I quit & went down in the empty room & played catch & came home to catch only Ma, Don & me had supper pa & louise went up to church social

Mar. 28, 1917. Cold, This afternoon after school Bud, Peanut, yatskey, Hambone Punkin, Billy & Georgey & me played ball. Buddy was on 3rd Base & was coming home and Yatskey was pitching & I was catching & he threw the ball to me and it hit bud on the head & Bounced up in the air & he never knew it till it fell down & he wondered where it came from He looked funny when he learned the truth He always was thickheaded in certain respects

Mar. 29, 1917 Warmer today. Peanut Yatskey Hambone Hearty & George & me played ball tonight lots of fun The rudds are the queerest family. Bill Rudd got the craze of making cider & I got a big quart bottle & went up there & he was filling a jug but I moved it & filled my quart bottle & corked it up & put it in my waist & he never knew the diff. Mr. Rudd went out carefully & picked ten bu. of crabapples because the were selling at an awful

high price in New York & bill wondered how crabapple cider would taste so he took a few apples & he liked it so he gave some to all his brothers & sisters & they liked it so well that they used up the ten bu. & had several jugs of crabapple cider left over & Mr. Rudd tasted of it & he said it tasted funny & they told him that it was made of the crabapples but he dident get mad cause he said that it was done & getting mad wouldent get it back about $25 lost in it but he dident seem to care

Mar. 30, 1917 Today I got a $1 base ball bat & a new quarter ball Junior bought a rubber center & donald got the same kind of a ball that makes me $2 I still have to pay. I guss I wont invest any more for a while. I went to the show tonight.

Mar. 31, 1917 Gee we had an awful thunder shower tonight It went Boom, Boom, Boom all the time Punkin george billy Hambone Hearty & Ed Latham played ball this afternoon.

April first 1917 Not much fun today because it is sunday I sent dony over after some coffee & when He got over here I said april fool eve dont need it so he had

to take it back I told him I would give him 10¢ if he would get me a thick 4 'yd. stick but he knew that one & after a while I sent him over to aunt hatties after 5 yds of skirmish line & when he came back he was awful mad I put some corks in the faucets & when the water was turned on the corks would come out & make a bang & hit your hand if you start to wash your hands.

Apr. 2, 1917 Rainy today, Hershy Peanut punkin yatskey hambone bud hearty & I played poke the nigger baby or tap the ice box & after that we played some new game.

Apr. 3, 1917. Nothing Particular today except that Pat O’Leary got called down in school by Miss Ashly.

Apr. 4, 1917 No school day after tomorrow.

Apr. 5, 1917 Reetorcal Today Last 2 periods. Lots of fun.

April 6, 1917 Good by teacher Good by School Good by proff Bloomin old fool No school for a week ta ta. It snowed last awful but it is