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hand stamed [[strikethrough]] [[costumes?]] [[/strikethrough]] before the door way. Even in that day this house belonged to older Phil c. & yearly these grounds less and less until they are nearly extinct [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]]

2 From where the very bakery doors Franklin had been seen comming with that historic loaf of bread under his arm, be that so or not there were in the celler archways and openings here & there which had always puzzled me and awed me, awed me because [[strikethrough]] had they because it [[/strikethrough]] they was mysterious mysteries because of the darkness & cobwebs & dust, and of the intricacy.

3 The cakes case cut into shapes of different animals, birds & fishes, they was allowed to do.