Feb. 14. pretty cold today. going to have a new kind of speling mach
tomorrow.

Feb. 15. Got to the head in spelling today. old Francis makes us all
stand up in the ile and gives us a lot of words to spell and then we
wright them down on our slates and then the head feller or girl
changes slates with the foot feller or girl and so on and then old
Francis wrights the words on the blackboard and then we mark each
others slates. John Flanygin was the foot feller and had my slate.
well most of Johns words was wrong. but John marked mine all write.
i gess John dident know it, but ther was 4 or 5 of my words speled
wrong. i set out to tell old Francis but dident dass to becaus he
licked me for teling that i paisted Cawcaw Harding that time. so i
kept still and kept at the head and John kept at the foot. i hope
John will do it again tomorrow.

Feb. 16. Beat in speling today.

Feb. 17. beat in speling today.

Feb. 19. Beat in speling today. old Francis is a going to give a
prise tomorrow. i told father i was pretty sure to get it and he
said it will be the first one. Aunt Sarah asked him if he took many
prises. and he said he dident get much of a prise when he got me. i
gess he wont say that tomorrow when i bring my prise home.

Feb. 20. i dident get the prise. you see yesterday John Flanygin
spelt more words write than Gimmy Fitsgerald and Gimmy went to the
foot. when we marked slates Gimmy marked 9 of my words wrong out