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7 more days for each Mule making 14 days )
& the 17 Apl - - 36 days ) Making 50 days
up to this time The Mules are working at $1.00 pr week 6
days makes a week
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Rain
It has rained nearly all day Wind N. W. & quite cold looks
like snow We have got some wood halled & it is verry exciptable
George H. & Jack fastened the boxes in my Wagon Wheels & it
does finely.

Sun 2 The morning is clear calm damp & muddy A breeze from N. W.
My General health as been better the past week than the week
before I have been putting the (Clark) Medicines on my neck
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Self
& sores verry much this week past I can see they are not quite
so bad but the itching is verry troublesome & anoying almost
as much as I can well bare at times. The Brandeth pills I
have been taking every night has had the desired effect allways
the next day. I take one every night I have been taking the
pills a week today, they are I think of verry good service

Mon 3 The morning is clear mostly calm are from N. E. & quite cool
(
0 but no frost as we can see ) Our broken thigh Colt is still
Cripple Colt) (
living but verry weak We help it up every day & feed it this
is 31 days since it got hurt which was the 2 of Apl last
Pegga's pigs)
Some of Pegga's pigs are drooping looks bad wont eat we wet
there bed with watter Cole oil & Sulphur They some of them
is too fat I think that & the lise is what ails them