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Tuesday 13 January 1903
Freezing all night. Voltie says could cross with
horse this morning. Cloudy and looks like more
snow. Maud & Irene washing dishes.
Maud on ice skating nearly all forenoon and
afternoon. Wallace & Will Niles walked across
the river this morning. Voltie drove over to Geo Rattray's
with a grist this morning; pig feed &
Graham flour. After dinner Voltie walked over
the river and went to the corners to see about
the Sears and Roebuck things which are being
sent through from Chicago to Rosiere. When they
arrive by express Eddie Bates will bring them over.
Voltie is very tired. But sets up and tries to
instruct M and I in the misteries of playing
the game called Nations. Lennie brings the mail
mail to us. Len is a good boy but R hates him
and calls him a niger. Poor Len.

nearly to the floor. I yelled "Get out of that you'll
smash the chair sure" but he would not budge
from his roost. And then began a garrilous
detailed discription of his life at Windmills, which
was a mixture of ridiculous, ludicorous, pathetic,
obscenity, which I would like to record in this
my diary, but decency forbids. After a
while I look towards the open door of the
kitchen and discover Van with his yaup going