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This is the dullest, most tiresome pasttime that was ever invented. Yes, Grandfa, I know you will be reading this! Keeping a journal must be the worst use of time I can think of. A journal, for all that the Elves made it, holds no magic. It is just a pretty book that will last a long time, or so the peddler said.
pastime pastime pastime pastime pastime pastime pastime pastime pastime pastime Very well. I must write misspelt words ten times before tea. And I must put a date on my entries so that you may see I have written something each and every day.
I say, Grandfa, that it is hardly fair to punish me for being late to tea when it is you who told me I must write each word ten times properly before I may have my tea! And as you have told me that I spell very well for my age I think it very unfair to punish me for reading when I ought to have been helping in the fields. After all, you boasted to Master Greenfield that I spell well because I read so much because you cannot get my nose out of a book! I do not believe your threat to apprentice me to him to keep his books. I will not be twenty for some years yet and besides you are making me keep a journal to improve my hand-writting. He does not want me to keep his books until my writting is neat and tidy. Perhaps I will never improve my writting, and so you shall never apprentice me!
3 July writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing I do not think your jest at all clever, Grandfa that I ought to write the word three-times-ten for having misspelt it three times. How does one keep a journal, anyhow? What to write? For breakfast I had four rashers of bacon, half a dozen eggs, fried to show their suns shining, cold pork pie and two apple dumplings, though Fanny said I had three. I drank milk still warm from the cow, and cambric tea for I am still only a youth, as some hobbits seem to have forgot. And now Salsify is calling me to pull weeds. |
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