Dear Diary,
Today was the best day of my life! Slim the fella who seemed kinda brusque let me have a puppy all to myself. He's brown and white just like I wanted and I can stroke him all I want. He was just born the other day so he's gotta stay in the nest with his momma. I brought him into my bunk and was recumbent when George realized and made me take him back to his nest. I wasn't trying to hurt him or do anything bad, the little puppy was just so soft I wanted to stroke him some more. I didn't understand that he had to stay with his momma, but George was nice and explained to me that I was just hurting the little soft puppy.
After I returned the puppy to his momma, I came back to the bunk house and was talking with George and Candy. Candy seemed real sad because the other guys had taken his old smelly dog and shot him because he was real old and in pain. I was begging George to tell me about our dream some more, about how we are gonna get a little place of our own and live of the fatta the land. About how we are gonna have some rabbits, and chickens, and even some pigs. George got talking and we both kinda forgot about Candy who was just lying down in his bunk. Then after a while he interrupted us and started talking about how he has a lot of money saved up, and he thinks he's gonna be fired soon because he's old just like his dog. We all got this great idea about how we can pool our money together- he would just be one more person- and he could just come with us. Now we only need to save up a little bit more money and our dream will be coming true.
After we found out about this great news, Curly and the guys all came back into the bunk house and were talking about how Curly keeps asking Slim about where his wife is. Slim was a little bit fed up because he hardly ever is with Curly's wife and doesn't like to keep being asked about it. Everyone started to kind of gang up on Curly and I was still so happy about the little place that's gonna be all ours that I was still kinda smiling. I guess Curly mistook that for me laughing at him and he came at me all pugnacious like. It scared me real bad and I was talking to George trying to get him to mollify me. He just kept saying get him Lennie, but I didn't wanna hurt nobody. He kept saying it and Curly was making me bleed, so I grabbed his hand and all this crunching noises erupted. It was real scary and I didn't wanna hurt nobody. I feel real awful about it.
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