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Mart doing Wellie's chores and ours. Mart does
a great deal of whistling & Edna a great deal of humming
which is somewhat distracting and anoying when
so long continued. Wills' horse ran away but
done no damage. Rachel and Will rode home with Welly.
Welly brought our grist and two bags of coal.
V stoped at the practice and came home in
cutter at 2 a.m. [Welly|Wellie]] brought back V's bay. Charley W
sorry to have it.

Sunday 6th February 1898
A brilliant cloudless day a heavy fall
of snow on the earth, dazzlingly white everywhere.
The monotonous whistling still going on at
short intervals. Will and Charley, Voltie, Grace,
Edna & Maud are sitting around the kitchen
stove te heing as usual. Mart stops just long
enough to whistle.

7th Feb 1898 Monday.
Grace does big washing. I wash a few
clothes. A good day for hanging out clothes. Father
goes to Clayton to see about selling the Island
but fails to make a bargain: gets 55 yds factory cloth,
34 print, 9 yds husk ticking and 5 lb batten, comes
home early. A harness pedler stays all night.
V and Jr and Mart bring wood from the
Island in the evening. The whole company
go to the oyster supper at
William G's. V & GD & Edna & Mart
and John Niles Jr and Em Morgan rides up home