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Thomas gets up to dinner eats
hearty does a few chores and goes
for Voltie. Maud washes & cleans
floors. I finnish Mauds dress
which is very pretty. Rachel came over
for turnips says she is all out of
everything eatable; no pork or
meat of any kind, no potatoes, no
beans but has honey, flour, butter, eggs.
I gave her a mess of potatoes and
a basket full of turnips and some
bread. Said she would kill a hen
only mother wont let her. said she
"dissent" cause mother would cry". Oh
Oh the foolishness and crazyness
of it all. Voltie came home first
and it is nearly 9 O'clock pm before
Sr comes. We had been looking for
him a long time and Voltie had hung
the lantern on the gate post for it is
Egyptian darkness outside 20 times
we go to the door and look out