(seq. 5)

September 1796

Fryday [sic]
I am this day 16 years of age but I shall celebrate
my birth day no other way than by endeavoring
to [satisfy?] myself in respect to the itch.
Went to the amphitheatre in order to see these
suprising [feats?] of [horsmanship?], of which I had heard
so much; and in general the performancse answered
my expectations; thought there was a considerable [?]
of [assembly?] attending the exhibition, arising from
fear for the performers within, and from the [?]
without.

Fryday
10
February
Not well, my head is complaining that there is
some derangement in its internal structure;
a drousy heaviness pervades my whole
frame, and I feel like a person who has been
lately drunk.
In the evening, I set off after some fruit,
in the first place, we [directed?] our course over the
bridge, in quest of some pears[?], but found none
except a few which were as hard as rocks; yet
we did not entirely waste our journey, for we
had had [sic] the pleasure of seeing [Jos.?] Warren fight
a skunk, the battle ended by the skunks run[-]
ing away and Warren's being almost suffocated
by the stench.

10 September 1976

Fryday
10th
February
On our return we visited Brattle's garden
from whence we took nearly half a bushel of peaches.

Sunday
11
As it is Sunday I must go to meeting. We had a sermon from
Mr Holms relative to the manners of the town of Cambridge
which were rather vitiated.

Monday
12
Time passes on toward the mark, the term is past out
forth I wish that it was quite so. However I am a
little more easy than I was a few days past;
for the horrors of the itch are dispelled in some degree,
and I am at length nearly freed from the apprehension,
what I was under on that account.

Tuesday
13
A fortunate day for me, as I receiv'd several [?]
from home through the politeness of [Mr. Buster?].
I also went to Boston for money, which I got.

Wednesday
14
Contented in some degree, but should be pleased to go
home. I count every moment and number every hour
as it passes; yet I have patience, and want for vacation
without any uneasiness of consequence. I have [recita-
ation?] enough, relaxation sufficient to unbend my mind & free
my head from the puzzeling mazes of greek roots, which like