Irene Dixon Bamford

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Tuesday 19 Sept 1899 Awoke this morning to find the rain pouring but I'm going Cityward all same so after breakfast V and I start for the villiage driving Bess over the mudy roads and through the rain. Call at Griffins and order Bess shod forward drive to Costello's and round to the back door as here we alright and proceed in doors and are very cordialy received by Mr and Mrs Costello. Mr C cares for the horse, and Mrs C invites us to a hot cup of coffee and a substantial lunch of toast, bread & butter, cake, grapes &c. Afterwards admiring the paneling of her rooms, the flowers, the antics of her kittens when the pierpont arrives at landing and we go on board through a wind and rain and after a few minutes proceed to the lower regions of the domicil of the cook where we are invited to another breakfast but decline with thanks, Arrive in Kingston and is [illegible] Proceed to the market for tomatoes, [illegible] 70 to 80 cts per bushel we dont buy. next go to [illegible] from there to Haines and Pocket where Bell buys a pair of rubbers and then to the bank where she gets [?] cashed for $25 dollars and then to [illegible] dentist where we wait two hours for customer [illegible] sit in dentist chair and bare all my teeth pulled out but one [illegible]