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Monday 31 Dec 1894 Snowing
this morning fast but no wind & soft
wind East, broken ice on this shore
At nine the sun come up
brightly. Wells ^Sr and Mart drawing
hay. Wellie not come up yet

Been cutting ^fir wood in Wellingtons
wood. I darned mittens and fixed
some for Mart, made scrap book
Grace wrote Nellie a letter
Wells Sr and Mart sawed off
the end of one of the maple
logs, snowed most all day
Mart & Wallace went a hunting
for ducks got nothing. Wellie
came to bring the team home after
drawing a load of wood for himself
and Will Dixon. Snows in Eve

Tuesday 1st January 1895
Another New Year ushered in
by a grand snow storm
Wind South. I see Bamford
looking at a hickory stick, guess
he's going to make an axe handle