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Saturday 17 February 1906
A warm cloudy morning 20 deg
above zero, Wind South & looks like
rain. Whitmarsh up dressed and
whistling. Grandad up dressed
in the kitchen swearing very
low about that "d-d whistling
fool" Whitmarsh puts himself inside
his fur lined over coat and goes down
on the ice where V & Jack Niles are
getting out to fill the ice house and awaits
his oppertunity to catch a ride with some
one enroute for the villiage and
soon hops on Will Gillespie's conveyance
and goes off up to the villiage. Jack N
here to dinner. Maud makes doughnuts
and I fry. They got the
ice all in before dinner. 30 big cake