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and skinned it and had to
pay 70 dollars for doing so
and taking them and their wrong
doings alltogether, they are not
very popular.

Friday 26 January 1906
A beautiful day sunlight clear
froze a little; a white frost ground
all bare, river all open, no ice
only a thin scale along the shore.
Voltie gone over to Dailys to
chop wood. Kent helping.
I'm troubled this morning with
cold feet and rheumatism
and drowsiness. We are to
have a new teacher a Mr. Whitmarsh
from the villiage. Evening mail
Herald, a book from Comfort,
a letter from Grace.

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