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Tu 12 The morning is dark & cloudy having rained all night and

Rain still raining & no appearance of quitting It is coming from

Mill the East Plim & Charley has shelled 2 bags of corn and taken

George H it to Mill George H is fixing up some scrapers &c at the Shop

Rain It has Rained nearly all day & is a raining at 9 oclock at

night it is now coming from N. & turning cold
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1868 ) The morning is dark and cloudy high winds from the North &
May )
Wed 13 ) quite cold Rained a little the forepart of the night The ground

Rain & ) is verry wet & Watter is running every way Nothing a doing
Cold )
trying to git up some wood Bell Mule looks quite weakly We
Bell Mule )
have turned her out for the present The wind is drying off

the ground verry fast Wind is verry high blowing from the N. W.

I am about to scrape Cotton & clean out our potatoes it is too

wet I am a fraid but we better do something. We have after

dinner been harrowing the Cotton. Verry high wind all day from

N. W.
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Th 14 The morning is dark & cloudy looks like rain Wind from N. West

& quite cool. All hands are working in there Crops Plim &

Cold Charley is plowing our little Corn Cloudy & cold all day No news
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Fr 15 The morning is clear & cool No frost Thomas and several hands

Thos are at work at his house. Plim & Charley & the little girls

Cotton ( has picked up all the stalks in the Cotton ground. Cotton not
field )
Cotton ( come up well, too thin.
field )