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looked for it; hog pen to clean out
and beans to thresh and clean up.
Tom comes back from visiting the Woodmans
just after dinner. Grandpa angry when he
saw Tom coming. "Kenbarks, d-d fool
shure to come back to his meals-if he
had staid home we would have cleaned
out the cellar". Sr fixing (or making)
a grindstone frame this a.m. one
he picked up out the mud & straw, "Over there"
when he was banking the house last fall
says if R knew it she'd raise H-l
though he gave it to Will and all the
hangings a long time ago. So much
profanity is demoralizing to the bearers
it sinks into the soul. They are now
going to clean out the cellar and
then throw coal ashes around the well.
R in trouble again. This time it
is poor Len Patterson. She came over
yesterday saying she had turned