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dinner, wanted tea and pepper.
Eveline sent home the last of Jens
work and is now seweing and cutting
a dress for herself. Grace cleaned floors and
and helped get dinner and finished
a night dress. Wellie finished pastering
his house and Voltie & Mart are picking up
stone. A raffle and dance at John Hogans
to night and a bee pulling
stumps and an apple pairing [sic] at
Wellington Burnham's to night.

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Wednesday 7 Oct 1894
A midling fair
day for the season. Grace and I
dressed 3 turkeys and 2 chickens for
market, churned twice and made
12 butter prints for market. Rachel
rowed down in a small skiff from
Charleton stoped here awhile
[illegible] to Kingston tomorrow
Voltie in the evening cleaned a
[illegible] for mill and done nearly all
chores. Mart went to the bee
[illegible the church by Rev White. Voltie
[illegible] Voltie brought news of
[illegible] that Mr Eben Joslin
[illegible] of paralysis