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Saturday 21 Dec 1895
A beautiful warm day clear.
Wind East changing to South, ground
bare: not a vestage of snow anywhere,
all our house doors open nearly all day.
Voltie working in blacksmith shop.
Will & Charlie here cutting up their beef
which hangs in our barn. Wells lend them
a beef barrel. Irene B wash and mend
Irene Halliday's clothes. Grace makes Irene N
an apron. Wells Sr not home yet.
I wish he would come home and Maud
too.

Evening Voltie gone
to J Niles to borrow buggy to go tomorrow
to the funeral which is held in the episcopal
church at 10 a.m. We were surprised by
Wells Sr suddenly coming after dark when
we had been looking for him all day.
Glad to see him once more hale &
hearty. A rainy night.