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March 17
When I waked up this morning rite away I thot I was gone to be smart but Im not.
Evry morning I think Im gone to be smart but nothing happins.
Mabye the experimint dint werk.
Maby I wont get smart and Ill have to go live at the Warren home.
I hate the tests and I hate the amazeds and I hate Algernon.
I never new before that I was dumber than a mouse.
I dont feel like riting any more progress reports.
I forget things and even when I rite them in my notbook sometimes I cant reed my own riting and its very hard.
Miss Kinnian says have pashents but I feel sick and tired.
And I get headakes all the time.
I want to go back to werk in the bakery and not rite ftega& progress reports any more.
March 20
Im going back to werk at the bakery.
Dr Strauss told Prof Nemur it was better I shoud go back to werk but I still cant tell anyone what the operashun was for and I have to come to the lab for 2 hrs evry nite after werk for my tests and keep riting these dumb reports.
They are going to pay me evry week like for a part time job because that was part of the arraingment when they got the mony from the Welberg foundashun.
I still dont know what that Welberg thing is.
Miss Kinnian explaned me but I still dont get it.
So if I dint get smart why are they paying me to rite these dumb things.
If their gonna pay me Ill do it.
But its very hard to rite.
Im glad Im going back to werk because I miss my job at the bakery and all my frends and all the fun we have.
Dr. Strauss says I shoud keep a notbook in my pockit for things I remembir.
And I dont have to do the progress reports every day just when I think of somthing or somthing speshul happins.
I told him nothing speshul ever happins to me and it dont look like this speshul experimint is going to happin neither.
He says dont get discouriged Charlie because it takes a long time and it happins slow and you cant notise it rite away.
He explaned how it took a long time with Algernon before he got 3 times smarter then he was before.
Thats why Algernon beats me all the time in that amaze race because he had that operashun too.
Hes a speshul mouse the 1st animil to stay smart so long after the operashun.
I dint know he was a speshul mouse.
That makes it diffrint.
I coud probaly do that amazed fester then a reglar mouse.
Maybe some day Ill beat Algernon.
Boy woud that be somthing.
Dr Strauss says that so far Algernon looks like he mite be smart permanint and he says thats a good sine becaus we both had the same kind of operashun.
March 21
We had a lot of fun at the bakery today.
Joe Carp said hey look where Charlie had his operashun what did they do Charlie put some brains in.
I was going to tell him about me getting smart but I remembered Prof Nemur said no.
Then Frank Reilly said what did you do Charlie open a door the hard way.
That made me laff.
Their my frends and they really like me.
Their is a lot of werk to catch up.
They dint have anyone to clean out the place because that was my job but they got a new boy Ernie to do the diliveries that I always done.
Mr. Donner said he decided not to fire him for a while to give me a chanse to rest up and not werk so hard.
I told him I was alright and I can make my diliveries and clean up like I always done but Mr. Donner says we will keep the boy.
I said so what am I gonna do.
And Mr. Donner patted me on the shoulder and says Charlie how old are you.
I told him 32 years going on 33 my next brithday.