I wen to the county fare and I won a few ribbons for my horse work, and some other stuff.  I gets to go the State fare if I won to but it kin of pends on if my chorse are done.  Juanita helped me a bunch to win the ribons and she was real smart bout everythin I needed to do.  There wuz some serius good horse riders at the fare and sum wuz even girls! 

Afer the fare I went to the Mississippi river and went to camp on the river.  There wuz a bunch of kids like me and then some from the big town of Red Wing.  We seen a big sternwheeler riverboat go up the river and it wuz full of lots of people waving and they seemed purty happy.  I was the bigest boat I ever seen and I sure wished I was with them…I wonder where they wuz going?  Maybe to Pigs Eye! 

I gots to get back to my chors so I will cyper more later.

well itz ben a while since I wrote so figured I better get to doin some.  Folks been asking bout the train trip to Chicago and it wuz reel fun and it wuz so much quicker then by stage coach!  We had to stop alot for water cuz the engine belched out a whole bunch of black smoke and I think they was trying to put it out!  Everyone was right nice on the train and the con-ductor even gave me a rock candy as we was going through Wisconsin!  It was awful nice of him.

Jaunita has been teaching me how to get Will to behave jus right for the fair. Bunch of us farm kids gonna complete agin each other for some prizes at the fair.  I ben practicing most everydey with my friend.  Shes a purdy good rider but I jus keep teling her that shes got a smarter horse is all.

Gots to shoot my new gun with my uncle and paw.  We jus did some shooting at targets is all, no hunting yet, but I like the gun reel good.  I was right, they did get it out of a catalog and it wuz bran spanking new, just off the gun makin machine!  When my friend Garret seen it he whistled and sez “wow, Skeeter, you musta done something reel good to get a gun likes that”. I jus  said “prolly” and shrugged my sholders.  I been workin purdy hard as of late, so I sure did deserve it.

After the fair Iz goin to a place with windboats and paddlewheelers on the Mississippi fer a week.  Jus gonna be a bunch of us kids and a few older kids to try and keep us out a trouble.  Iz already got a pea shooter redy and hope thez gots a talent contest for me to show off my trick roping.  Maybe I’ll rope me a purty gurl! 

Here Jaunita yeling for chickens, beter go help