Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-09
BIRonrowy AcADEMY, September /.

Dispatch
BIRoHTowy ACADEMY, September 90.
DEAR POP: am getting along first
rate at the school, and / like it very much,
all except Whacks-tbe assistant" Old
Beeswax," we call him, and we are down
on him like pile.driver, all us boys, for
he's ignorant. Why, he's so ignorant he
don't know a blackboard from dark
night-no, he don't; and Bill Ferguson
he put torpedo under each leg Of old
Beeseys chair yesterday, and when he
SGT down (you see he sits down like he
had ballast in himl, why the torpedoes
they exploded, and like to blowed him
through the roof Golly, but wasn't be
scared He looked at the almanac, to
make sure it wasn't the Fourth of July,
and then he came down, looked mad, and
licked Bill like blazes. But Bill said he
didn't care cent, and she next time he
would sprinkle gunpowder in his hair,
and bust his old frontispiece off of him.
Dr. Goggles, he's q nice enough old
feller, only he will sit and chew gum
drops right before us boys, and never
says take some once.
He wears green spocs, and Bill Fer
guson he called him "old four-eyes"
one dGy, which the Doctor he heard Bill
say it, and he nailed him and he dragged
him up to the desk, and then he gave us
a lecture, and said there was once a boy
he knew, and he was about Bills size,
who insuteA a gray-headed old man, and
called bim wicked names, and the next
day-the very next morning-that boys
mother died Of iniiammatory rheuma-
tism aud his sister broke out with bum
ions.
Bill he cried, while the Doctor held
him by the shir: collar, but he winked at
the. pov0 as he came away, and wrote on
.. piece of paper, and threw II over to me,
that he thought tAe Doctor was blow
er," aEd he darsent hit boy of his size.
] want some new books very much,
about ten of them, and they will cost
eight dollars. Please send the money
for them. Don't send the books, for the
doctor likes us to buy them here
| don't want any money for ts4y or
marbles, for | don't caro- about them
but be sure not to bead anything but the
money for the books.
| am in good health. | was taken
sick last week, and had a sore eye for
few days, but it is nov well.
We was playing mumhley peg out
on the grass, and Bill Ferguson he
grabbed my knife. | told him be better
give that knife up or would tell you,
and get you to lick him when you came
down, and he said he could lick you and
a dozen like you, and then he dared me
to knock a chip off his shoulder.
And Jake McGinnis, he pushed nae
against him, and that knocked the chip
of, and Bill, he struck me over the nose
three or four timas, and said he'd "bust
me on the snoot if ! didn't dry up, for
| copldp'. helN crying, and was taken
sick, and couldn't 90 TO school all that
day. 81
And the doctor, he locked Bill up in
the garret; but he didn't care, for he
clumb out on the roof, and was chasing
around after tom cats, up and down,
almost all the moyG;ns, aud pulling plas'
tering ovt OF the chimney TO throw at
people in the street.
Give my love to all at home, and don't
forget the money for the books.
Bill is about fourteen do you thiAk
he can lick your
Please send the morsjA and believe
me your aifectieasts son.
II, y. WILKINS.
4 S-Don't forget TO send the money
for those books.