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SEPTEMBER 19. Thurs Fine. Lew got home this forenoon. Anda and I went a fishing in the forenoon and in the afternoon Lew Anda and I went up to the hill country and we got there just in time to to get straightened around and get supper before bedtime.

SEPTEMBER 20. Fri Very nice and got cloudy and looks like rain some to night. A M and I made an early start for horse tooth this morning. We wandered and meandered and climbed but it was most [almost] too smoky to pay us for climbing clear to the happy top so we stoped [stopped] first before we went over it got back all right and came home at night.

SEPTEMBER 21. Sat About as common only as it rained a little just at night. Lew went to town in the morning to get some eggs and things to take to Cheyenne. I picked some plums in the forenoon and in the afternoon I went to the primary in town and I felt very much dissatisfied with the way that it was carried on so I came home and after I got home I fixed the lock to the wagon.

SEPTEMBER 22. Sun Quite nice again. We picked fruit and things and got Lew loaded up to start for Cheyenne got off about 1 O Clock and Anda went with him to keep antelopes from biting him had the old Maynard Rifle along. Mrs Giddings was here with some of her children. They got a dollars worth of apples. I helped around where I could do the most good.

SEPTEMBER 23. Mon Cool in the morning and kept growing cold all day. I suppose that Lew and Anda have got into Cheyenne before this time. Mr Dixon came this morning and in the forenoon we threshed out the Jappaneese [Japanese] buckwheat and brought it down in the afternoon. We worked at the Silver hull and brought up what we had threshed and put it in the granary.

SEPTEMBER 24. Tues Cold windy and disagreeable all day. Mr Dixon was here again and threshed buckwheat. I waked about 2 O clock with a great big fever but Hannah fixed some Acconite and I have taken it all day and I have less fever to night than I had in the morning and I think I feel better otherwise.

SEPTEMBER 25. Wed A little rough but not quite as bad as yesterday. Mr Dixon finished the buckwheat in the forenoon and in the afternoon husked corn. I felt some better and helped him at the corn.

SEPTEMBER 26. Thurs Quite a nice day. We spent the day very pleasantly a visiting with A M Lew Mother and me and Anda. Went and viewed the red stone quarries after going to John Dragers but Mother staid [stayed] with Annie and John went with us in the afternoon. We went up Pouder [Poudre] Canion [Canyon] to see the sights up there and we did see them too.

SEPTEMBER 27. Fri Pretty good day again. We chored around some in the forenoon hauled the buckwheat and put it up stairs in the granery [grainery] and hauled a load of squashes etc. A M Corbit started for home on the 2 O clock train. Lew got and brought home a load of coal and I attended the republican convention in the afternoon got home just after dark.

SEPTEMBER 28. Sat Very nice as usual. Lew and Will Dixon went up to the hills found a dead calf there. think it had the black leg. They went to Stout and then came home. The rest of us staid [stayed] at home all but Lill. She went to see how Ett is and found her better.