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Continued - Wallace and Geo Farr gone
to the back woods and lakes of Canada
fishing, carried with them a barrel of
fish nets, guns, ammunition &c &c

Friday 20 Nov 1896
A quite pleasant Nov day.
Grace cooking all fore noon for a
surprise party at Bells this eve. We get dinner
early, and Grace fills her "basket with
apples, pie & cake and goes aross the fields
to Uncle Sammy's, and goes up with
the mail as far as Berry's Corners,
and walks the rest of the way carrying the
basket which must have been very heavy.
I think it must have been a surprize
to Belle and the children when they saw
her come in so unexpectedly, the company
were not many only V, and G, & Shell,
Frank, Ed Weaver, Geo Morgan & Alice F,
Hank & Dick Halliday, Lewis & Dick Lerush
and Hanks' lad Jim Hunter. Rachel
came over awhile. Maud and I alone
all the evening and all night.
Maud at school. A letter from Wells Sr