p.

Aunt Paulina & George spent 4th day P.M.
with us- next morning Thomas went
for us - Hulda Collins & her sister Asenath
had come to spend the day - so we came
home over the worst road a part of the
way but found good sleighing from the river
up - we have given up trying to get to
our meeting house & so Paulina & George &
Mary & Howard came here on first day -
& we had our meeting in the east room,
Ann sick a bed with the measles - she
was taken on sixth day previous - broke
out very much & seemed to have all the
usual symptoms - first day night
we were quite alarmed, her throat was
so swollen & sore - fearing the dyptheria.
I think she did not sleep at all till about
one - it remained bad for 3 days but is now
well of [underline]that[/underline], but her eyes are extremely
weak & last night we had another alarm,
one of them felt as if something was in
it - but we could see nothing, but it became
so painful & red that we did not know

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what to do - I finally applied an alum
cure which seemed to sooth it & she
soon went to sleep & rested nicely - they
have felt better to day, but she has mostly
kept them bandaged - yesterday she
intended to have gone back to school -
I tell her I think this disappointment
must be to teach her charity - which
I have sometimes thought she lacked
when going to school or college was
the theme - she is at this present time
smoking tar or trying to - her pipe does not
go very well - it is recommended for the
catarrh - & also for the dyptheria -

Mary came up with Horace & How-
ard in a waggon third day A.M. & staid
with us till yesterday P.M. this was
very pleasant to us all - she wonders
why she does not get a letter from thee.

Our sugaring does not seem
likely to amount to much - they have
not tried to go in to the place with
horses - the road to the centre has not