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"SEQUIL"
Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First
By
HENRY A. SHUTE
Published by
The Everett Press
Boston, Mass., Mcmiv
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Copyright, 1904, by Henry A. Shute.
Entered at Stationers' Hall.
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"SEQUIL"
OR THINGS WHITCH AINT FINISHED IN THE FIRST
Sept. 7, 186- Gosh, what do you think, last nite father and mother and
me and Keene and Cele and aunt Sarah was sitting at supper when father,
he sed i am a going to read your diry tonite. Gosh i was scart for i
hadent wrote ennything in it for a long time. so after supper i went
over to mister Watsons and asked him if he dident want to see father and
he sed he wood and i went home and told father mister Watson wanted him
to come over jest as quick as he cood and father went over. i knew
father woodent ever think of it agen. father and mister Watson Beanys
father set and talked about what they usted to do and father sed do you
remember Wats that time you and Bill Yung and Brad Purinton and Jack Fog
went down to, and then he saw me and Beany lissening and he sed, you
boys run away and he giv me 5 cents and me and Beany went over to old Si
Smiths for some goozberies but i have got to wright that old diry some
more whitch is pretty tuf, i have forgot whether it was brite and fair
sence i wrote my last diry or not, but ennyway it is brite and fair
today. Lots of things have hapened sense i wrote my last diry. Beanys
father is a poliseman now and Beany feels prety big. Beany hadent better
say mutch to me ennyway. the stewdcats have come back and they has been
lots of fites. Scotty Briggam licked 2 stewdcats in one day. one day me
and Pewt and Beany was standing in frunt of the libary and 2 stewdcats
went in and Pewt threw a peace of dry mud and it hit the stewdcat rite
in the neck and bust and went down his coller and he see us laffin and
he walked rite out to where we was standing and he sed sorter sisy like
whitch of you boys throwd that, and Pewt sed jest like him, if you are
so smart you had better find out, and he grabed Pewt and throwd him rite
in the guter and roled him round in the mud and hit him 3 good bats in
the ear. me and Beany run and Pewt he was mad becaus we dident pich in
and help him, but lots of times me and Beany has got licked and Pewt
never helped us. i told Father about it and he sed he was glad of it and
he wished the stewdcats had licked me and Beany two.
Sept. 8, 186- brite and fair. the band played tonite downtown. we all
went down but mother and aunt Sarah and the baby and Franky and Georgie
and Annie who was all two little except mother and aunt Sarah who had to
stop and take care of them. the band played splendid and Fatty Walker
jest pounded the base drum as hard as he cood. most of the fellers run
round and played tag and hollered but i set still. i cant see how
fellers can run round and holler when a band plays. they tried to pull
me out of my seet but i giv Beany a good punch. when we came home
mother asked if i had behaived and father sed i set there jest like a
old potato. he sed i dident know much ennytime but when i herd music i
dident know ennything.
Sept. 9, 186- Will Simpkins is coming to visit us. he is my cuzon and is
older then i am and every time he comes he licks me. i dont dass to tell
becaus he is company. so this time i am going to get Gim Erly or Tady
Finton to lick him. he is coming next Saterday. he lives in a city and
wears a neckti every day and feels prety big and says i am a countryman.
I see Gim Erly today and he says he will lick time out of Will for a
nife and a slingshot. i had lost my nife so i told Beany and he sed he
wood give Gim his nife if he wood let him see the fite. Will licked
Beany last summer and Beany aint forgot it. then i dident have enny
slingshot and so i told Fatty and Fatty he sed he wood give Gim his
slingshot if he cood see the fite. it seemed kinder mean not to tell
Pewt, so i told Pewt and he sed he would give me his fathers pigs
bladder when it was killed if i wood let him see the fite, that makes 2
bladders i am going to have this fall. Oliver Lane is going to give me
his, they will make bully footballs. i gess i can get Potter to give me
a leest flycatches egg if i will let him see the fite.
Sept. 10. Brite and fair. Will Simpkins is coming tomorrow. i bet he
will wish he hadent after Gim Erly gives him that licking. Potter gave
me a red wing blackbirds egg and a chippys egg and 2 blewjays wings to
see the fite.
Sept. 11. Brite and fair. it was the best fite i have seen since Cris
Staples licked Charlie Clark you had aught to have seen it. Will came
this morning he was all dressed up and had his shoes blacked. i knew
that wood make Gim want to lick him. i felt kinder mean when he came
becaus he seamed glad to see me, and mother sed i hope you boys will
have a real nice time together, and i sed i gess we will. so after
dinner i asked him to go over to Beanys and we went over and Gim was
there and Potter and Pewt and Fatty and Billy Swett came with Fatty and
he wispered he wood giv me a whailbone bow. Gim sed to me easy have you
got them things and i sed yes and Gim sed no fooling and i sed hope to
die and i crosed my throte and i sed you have got to lick him first and
he sed he wood lick him. so we went over in the high school yard to play
prisners bass. well prety soon Gim sed Will cheeted, and Will said he
dident, and Gim sed do you mean to call me a lier and Will sed he dident
cheet and Gim sed he wood giv him a paist on the nose, and Will sed he
want man enuf and Gim scrached a line in the dirt and told Will not to
dass to step over it and then Will put a chip on his sholeder and told
Gim not to dass to nock it off and Will sed if he hit Gim he wood nock
him so far he woodent come down at all and Gim sed if he hit him there
woodent be ennything left of him but a red neckti, and Will told Gim he
was a freckled faced mick and Gim told Will he was a curly haired nigger
and just then Fatty give Will a push rite into Gim and they went at it
and Gim licked time out of Will and got him down and lammed him until he
hollered enuf. then Will he went home balling and i had to go two and
when we got home mother sed it was a shame and she wood tell father when
he got home. when father got home mother told him and sed it was a shame
that Willy, she calls him Willy, i am glad my name aint Willy, i had
rather be called Skinny or Polelegs or Plupy then Willy, well she sed it
was a shame that Willy coodent play with me without having that dredful
Erly boy fiting him and she wanted father to go up to Mr. Tucks where
Gim lives and tell him about it. Well father sed boys always fit and
she mustent wurry about it he gessed Willy wood get over it. but he told
me not to ask Gim Erly down here agen. so after supper when i had to go
for the yeest i ran up to Gims and giv him the nife and the slingshot
and told him not to tell.
Sept. 12. Brite and fair. Will has got a black eye and a scrached nose.
Nellie has got well and we had a ride today after church and i let Will
drive. in the afternoon Beany and Pewt came over and we had a shooting
mach with the whailbone bow behind the barn. i told Beany and Pewt not
to tell for if they did father woodent let us go together agen. Fatty
and Potter and Billy Swett wont tell ether.
Sept. 13, 186- Brite and fair. today we had a good time. mother let me
invite Beany and Pewt and Nipper Brown to supper for company for Will.
Pewt coodent come becaus he shot one of his fathers hens with his arrow
rifle jest like i shot my hen whitch was eating eggs and Mister Purinton
Pewts father woodent let him come. i gess if father had been at home for
supper i wood have got a licking but he dident get home til the 7 oh
clock train. well we had been raising time up in my room and when we
went down to supper i pulled a chair out when Nipper went to set down
and he set rite down on the floor bang and grabed the table cloth and
pulled of his plate and cup and sauser and Beanys sauser and they came
rite down on his head and broak to smash. Nipper was scart but mother
picked him up and said he needent wurry for she dident care for the
dishes and asked him if he was hurt and said it was my falt and she told
me i had aught to be ashamed and I hadent aught to have company if i
dident know how to treet them. she dident send me to bed becaus she had
to be polite to Beany and Nipper and so i was all rite, after supper we
played domminoes til the nine oh clock bell rang and then Beany and
Nipper went home.
Sept. 14. Brite and fair. Will went home to-day i was sorry he went, we
had a good time and i never knew him to be such a good feller before. i
gess it did him good to get a lickin. father says it always does me good
to get a good lickin. before he went he got me to throw a ball easy at
him and he let it hit him in the eye so he cood tell his folks that a
ball hit him in the eye, so he wood not have to tell a lie to his father
about his black eye. a feller feels a good deal better when he doesent
have to lie to his folks. when i usted to hook in swiming i usted to
stick my head in the rane water barril so I cood tell father how i wet
my hair. i dident like to do it sometimes becaus the barril was full of
little wigglers but i had ruther do that then have to tell a lie,
ennyway i gess all the wigglers that got into my hair died becaus they
never bit me. father says they turn into musketers.
Sept. 15, 186- Brite and fair. i forgot to say that i giv Will the
whailbone bow that Billy Swett giv me to see the fite. he was glad to
get it i tell you, and he sed i was the best feller he knew. i told him
when he came here agen we wood have some more fun. mother gave him 25
cents and gave me ten cents for being so good to him. me and Pewt and
Beany had some goozeberies down to old Si Smiths. father told me one
time i cood have a football, so i asked him tonite and he sed i dident
desirve ennything, that i had caused him a good deal of truble, ennyway
i am going to have 2 bladders.
Sept. 16. Clowdy but no rane. Beany and Ticky Moses got fiting at resess
today. we was playing 2 old cat and we was chewsing sides, and Beany and
Ticky was chewsing and the way they did it was this. Beany he throwed
the bat at Ticky and Ticky he cought it about half way down, and then
Beany he put his hand above Tickys and Ticky he put his above Beanys,
and so on til when they came to the end of the bat the last one whitch
had his hand on has the first choice and no fudging, only he has got to
swing the bat around his head 3 times and throw it 3 times as far as he
can gump. well Beany he had the last hand on the bat and he cood jest
get hold of it a little and when he swung it round his head it sliped
and hit Ticky on his head, and he piched into Beany and jest as they was
fiting good the bell rang. that is jest the way. something always stops
the good fites. i bet on Beany.
Sept. 17. Brite and fair. the stewdcats have got back long ago--i forgot
to wright that in. they are some new fellers not enny biger then i am.
Honey Donovan licked one of them easy and made him ball like a baby.
Chitter Robinson and a stewdcat named Hall had a fite on the Plains and
neether licked. they fit until they was tired out, and Darlinton a big
stewdcat came up and stoped them. they aint much fun in going to school
now. all the girls go to school in the libary bilding and they is nobody
but fellers in the grammer school. i tell you it is pretty loansom. we
fellers dont care mutch if they miss in there lessons.
Sept. 18. Brite and fair. after school today me and Beany and Fatty and
Nibby and Lees Moses and Whacker went home by the libary building, when
the girls came out they dident pay enny attension to us becaus the high
school fellers was there. perhaps they will want to slide on our sleds
next winter and then i gess they will find out something.
Sept. 19, 186- Brite and fair. went to church in the morning and to
sunday school in the afternoon. i have got a new pair of britches. old
Missis Stickny made them out of a old pair of fathers. they wasent very
old becaus they was made out of the same blew coat that father had when
he was going to make his speach when old Dirgin put me out of the town
hall. father sed he wood never ware them britches ennymore. they was too
tite, and his new boots was too tite two, and so he giv them to me, only
i cood have the britches made smaler and i coodent have the boots made
smaler so i will have to wate a long time before i cood ware the boots.
well after sunday school me and Bug and Cawcaw and Pile Wood went down
to the dam. they are having the dam fixed and the water is auful low,
rite below the dam they was some big pikerel in a place where they
coodent get out. well we took off our shues and stockings and begun to
wade in after them and they wood dart round lively and we got pretty
well spatered, and than i fell rite down and got wet soping. after that
i went rite in and we got 12 big pikerel and we had 3 apeace. so i went
home and i was afraid i wood get a licking and i did two, for when i
came in father said where in thunder have you been and i told him and
said here are some good pikerel for supper and he said i will atend to
you sir, and he took me up stairs and gave me a whaling. gosh you bet it
hurt. well then he told me to go to bed and said i coodent have my
supper, and when i took of my close my legs were all blew and i called
mother up to see how i was black and blew and when she came up she said
for mersy sakes, the coler has all come out of your pants and you are
all chekered blew, so i tride to wash it of, and it woodent come of. so
i went to bed and i felt auful hungry and i cood hear them at supper and
i could smell beefstake and i almost wished father was ded, and when it
was almost dark mother come up with a tray and she had fride one of the
pikerel and had some tost and a baked potato and i set up and had a buly
supper. mother wasent mad a bit with me but she told me i did rong but
she gessed i got my pay for it and i gess i did. mother is jest as good
as she can be.
Sept. 20. Brite and fair. the coler hasent gone of my legs yet. tonite
father took me down to Erl and Cuts where he got the coat that my
britches was made out of and told Erl about it and made me show my legs,
and Erl said i gess George, the cloth hadent been spunged, and father
said i dont know about the cloth, but he was spunged most damly when he
got them. and mister Erl laffed and gave father a pair of new britches,
and we went home. father felt pretty good about it, it dont seam rite, i
got a lickin and got my legs all blew and it wont come of, and father
got a new pair of britches for nothing. enny way one of these pickerel
waid a pound.
Sept. 21. tonite i went over to Beanys. Mister Watson Beanys father was
leening his head on his hand and i stumped Beany to pull his elbo out.
and we nearly dide laffing to think about it and by and by Beany got up
his spunk and pulled his elbo out and his head came rite down on the
table and he jumped up and grabed Beany and hit him some good bats and
sent him to bed and told me to go home and never come over there
ennymore. so i cant go with Beany ennymore. the coler hasent gone out of
my legs.
Sept. 22. Rany. the coler has begun to go of my legs.
Sept. 23. Rany as time. we got some soft sope of old man Currier today
and the coler is most gone.
Sept. 24. It is all gone now.
Sept. 25. Lubbin Smith and Geen Titcum got fiting at resess today and
the bell rung before eether had licked. i bet on Lubbin. i went down for
some more pikerel today but the river is two deep now.
Sept. 26. i went to church today. they issent enny fun sundays.
Sept. 27, 186- Brite and fair. today we was playing football at school
and Whacker got rooted agenst Colbaths barn and hit his head whack and
fell down jest as if he was ded, and old Francis came running out and
grabed him up and put water on his head and then he waked up and was all
rite but he had a headake.
Sept. 28. Rany as time. father has sold Nelly to old Si Smith. she was
lame in her hind leg and when she stands in the stable she holds her
hind leg up in the air all the time, and when she goes out she limps
auful but after she goes a while she aint lame. so last nite father
hiched her up and took me and we drove over to Wire Shaws in Kensington
and when we came back he took out the whip and hit her under the belly
with it 2 times and you aught to see her go. when we came to old Si
Smiths she was going like old Billy Robinsons troter. then father turned
round and drove up to Sis and old Si and Shep Hodgden and Gimmy Biddle
and Charles Fifield was there and father said this will make jest the
horse you want for your store and old Si said she aint biger than a rat
and father said i gess she is big enuf to carry out all your lodes
unless you put down your price, and then they all laffed at Si, and then
Si said she was a puller and father said what do you want Josiar one
that you have to push, and then they laffed agen and when father called
him Josiar i know Si had better look out for when father calls me Henry
i know i am in for a liking. then Si said she is lame in every leg and
father said you get in here and drive her and if she goes a lame step i
will give her to you, and old Si said to Shep and Gimmy you get in and
drive her and they got in and drove off and father said he wood take 50
dolars for her and old Si said he wood give 35 dolars for her and they
talked and talked and then Shep and Gimmy came back and said she went
all rite and old Si said he wood give father 40 dolars and father said
she was worth 50 but as Si was a nabor he wood like to acomodate him.
well old Si was counting out the money when he said he bet she was a
kicker father said she is kind as a kitten and dont bite or kick dont
she Harry and i said she cant kick becaus she always holds up one leg in
the stall, and old Si said whats that and i told him how she coodent
kick becaus she held up one leg, and then Gimmy and Shep and Charlie
Fifield and old Mister Page all laffed and hollered and stamped round
and slaped their legs and said that is a good one, and old Si stoped
counting his money and swore aufully and father looked auful mad for a
minit and then he said she is wirth every cent of 50 dolars and asked Si
what he wood give and Si said 15 dolars and they talked and talked and
after a while he give father 25 dolars. then we went home and father
looked prety mad. i dident know what i had done but when we got home he
said Harry you go to bed, so i went up about scart to deth but by and by
i crep to the stairs and lissened and he was telling about it to mother
and he said if he had sence enuf not to ask me about it he cood had got
15 dolars more out of old Si and he was mad enuf to lick me, and then he
began to laff and mother laffed and said it served you jest rite George
to try and cheet a old man, and father said Nelly was wirth 50 dolars
and the last baril of flour that Si sold him was older then Methooselas
gread granfather and he wood have got square with Si if it hadent been
for that boy. well mother said you cant whip him for telling the truth
and father said thunder no i aint going to lick him but i was mad enuf
to. so i felt prety good and crep back to bed.
Sept. 29. Brite and fair. At school today Scotty Briggam jumped over the
fence today to get the football and fell on his arm and broke it, and
then he went home and came back before school was out with some shingles
tied on his arm. Scotty has got some spunk, but i gess Tady Finton can
lick him now. Old Francis said 2 axidents in 2 days was too mutch and we
mustent play football enny more. so at recess we go behind the school
house and have fites. Gim Miller and Ben Rundlet had a good fite, and
tomorrow Plug Atherton and Diddly Colket are going to have a fite it is
most as much fun to see fites as to play football.
Sept. 30. Brite and fair. we cant have enny more fites. at recess today
Plug and Diddly had the best fite i ever saw. they fit all recess and
none of us heard the bell and Plug had Diddly down and we were all
hollering, paist him Plug and hit him Diddly when old Francis came round
the corner and grabed Plug and Diddly. i tell you we all went into
school lively and old Francis made Plug and Diddly stand on the platform
all the rest of the day with their arms round each others necks and we
dident have enny recess in the afternoon. it is pretty tuf. we cant play
one old cat becaus old Polly Smith makes a fuss when the ball goes over
her fence and we cant play football becaus Scotty broke his arm and
Whack got stunted, and we cant fite becaus it is rong to fite. we might
jest as well be girls and roll hoop.
Sept. 31, 186- father has got a new pair of hip boots. rany.
Sept. 32. No i ment Oct 2. yesterday was Oct 1, and i got it Sept. 31.
went down to Henry Youngs tonite and had my hair cut. he put some auful
nise smeling oil on and when i got home they all took turns in smeling
of my head.
Oct. 3. i went to Church. Pile Woods sister played the organ she is
going to play all time now.
Oct. 4. brite and fair today and yesterday. it was so hot today that me
and Chick Chickering went in swiming, the water was cold as time, and we
jest ducked our heads and come out lively.
Oct. 5. nothing today. brite and fair. they hasent been enny fites at
school for the longest while.
Oct. 6. Keene and Cele has got some new balmoral skirts. they feel prety
big.
Oct. 7. Charles Talor was down to the house tonite and kept us all
laffing to hear him tell stories about father and Gim Melcher.
Oct. 8. brite and fair. tomorrow me and Beany are going to wirk for
Mister Hirvey making ice creem. he is going to give us some and some
creem cakes. i missed in school today.
Oct. 9. Brite and fair. i gess i shant forget today very soon. this
afternoon we went over to Mister Hirveys and we wirked a long time
making ice creem by turning the handles of the buckets and choping up
the ice. after we got done he let us come into his saloon and we had to
big glasses of pink and yellow mixed and some creemcakes. well after we
had et it Beany said less put some pepersass into the rest of the
creemcakes. so we did and then we went out and peeked through the
window. bimeby a man came in and set down and we saw Mister Hirvey bring
in some icecreem and some creemcakes. well we kept peeking and the
feller et one creemcake and we heard him say to Mister Hirvey that they
were the best creem cakes he ever et and then he took another and took a
hog bite out of it and then he jumped up and his eyes buged out and he
spit it out and begun to swear and drink water and stamp round and
Mister Hirvey said what is the matter and the man spit some more and
swore and said they was helfire in the creemcake, and Mister Hirvey
looked into it and said some one has put pepersass into it and i bet i
know who did it. when i heard him say that i ran round the corner, but
Beany waited too long and Mister Hirvey saw him peeking in the window
and came out lively. well Beany he ran down into Toles yard as tite as
he could go and Mister Hirvey came hipering after him with his white
apron on, i dident know he cood run so fast. bimeby he came back holding
Beany by the ear. Beany he wood try to hold back until his ear nearly
puled of and then he wood come along. well Mister Hirvey snaiked him
rite into his saloon and said, did you put that pepersass into my
creemcakes, and Beany he said he dident, and Mister Hirvey said i dont
want enny lying, and said that Beany and the long leged Shute boy were
the last ones in the place and that one of us did it. and Beany he said
he dident and he saw me with the pepersass bottel in my hand and Mister
Hirvey he said now you have got to eat that creemcake or take a good
licking and he took his cane, and held Beany by the coller and said 1
and Beany dident eat it, and then he said 2 and Beany dident eat it and
then he said 3 and he hit Beany a auful whack over the legs and Beany
hollered like time and held on to his legs, and then Mister Hirvey he
said 1 again and Beany dident eat it and he said 2 and Beany dident eat
it and jest as he said 3 Beany he grabed it and took a bite and tride to
swaller it and i thought i shood die to see him, he spit and clawed at
his mouth and he howled and jumped up and down and then he ran over to
Charles Toles pump and rensed his mouth and drank out of the horse troth
and Mister Hirvey and the man like to dide laffing. i waited till they
went in and then i went over to see Beany and when i asked him how he
liked the creemcake he said i was a long leged puke. this was one of the
times that Beany got cought and i dident.
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