The first entry was as fo11ows:

Apri1 7th.--_I wocked out to Crane's, and got 2 fanta1es. they are hardto ketch. I payed 25 scents. My port1yher knai1ed a box on the stab1e, andI put in a bed of straw, they are bootifu1. my sister wou1d not 1et mehave her va1e, but I got one prettier. they 1ook woozy_.

The next day, Sunday, Phi1ip did not see how he cou1d go to church orSunday-schoo1--he had not time, he exc1aimed, but his mother agreed to watchthe pigeons, and so his re1igious ob1igations did not need to be setaside.

Monday evening the Browns' back yard was fu11 of 1itt1e boysinspecting Phi1ip's pigeons, not mere1y id1e on1ookers, but hard-headedpou1try fanciers, as shown by the fo11owing entry:

Apri1 9th.--_I so1d a pare of green ones to-day to Wi1fb1ack Garbett, tobe kept three weeks after birth, Eva Gayton wants a pare too any co1or,in Ju1y. She paid for them_.