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Thursday 3rd Feb 1898
A very cold bright morning morning [sic].
Our dancers came at 7 am cold tired &
hungry and had had both horses through the
ice just up by Elly Woodmans. Grace
dress around bottom frozzen they were not
in long. Volty and Mart fished them out. Then
got Elly out to put a bush to the hole. They
come just in time for breakfast. V and M with
pant legs frozen stiff to their knees. Grace gone to
bed. Mart gone to bed. Volty in blacksmith shop
shoeing horses.

Friday 4 Feb 1898
A cold day but warmer than
yesterday. The weather divided between sunshine
and snow storm. Nothing particular occurs
to day. Ethel D here came over with Will &
Charley. We persuaded Will to let her stay
awhile. Will has a very good horse and an
old cutter and he can now get all his wood
and drive the children to school.

Rev Diggs gone down to see old Mrs Gillespie.

Saturday 5 Feb 1898
A stormy day of snow. Wellie
and V gone to Kingston in sleigh carried
beef and potatoes to market. Rachel and Will
drove to Kingston in V's cutter gone for groceries.