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you'll get left and this privilege is
ours only twice more this fall and
then & then we must arise yet earlier
and the horses must drag a waggon or sleigh 14 miles in
time "to get the first boat across to Town
so we may get home again the same day.
No matter if we do start at 4 a.m.
and get back to our starting place
at 8 p.m. All the same we have been
to town if we only have brought home
with us a pound of tea and ,50 cts worth
of sugar perhaps a plug of tobao and
we have been to the office and paid
the Taxes.

Monday 9th
A very pleasant day. Ma gone to Wills with
Nellie, Grace & Maud alone
in the house. Voltie doing
work out the barn before noon,
in the after noon
he & Wallace gone to Wills to
chop wood, then they come