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white washing. I cook beans and bake molasses
cookies and have dinner on the table at
eleven: Gave tom soda & water & away
he goes to the field to plow. By dinner
time Maud has white washing nearly done in
kitchen. Sr says Tom eats too much
meat & too many biscuits. Sr went "over
there" to chop wood. Found them
eating breakfast. After dinner Tom helps
white wash the kitchen the second time.
I am sleepy. Mankind likes to
see the home and every thing very
clean, bright, tidy but our kitchen shelves
and windows are a curriosity shop. In
cleaning up, this is what is represented. First
window. One plug of tobaco, 2 old pipes,
and old heel plate, one file, a box of foot ease,
a rasp 2 screws, 6 large nails, 8
shingle nails, a pair of spectacles and
case, and an old harness buckle and
piece of an old leather strap