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the other side drove up to Mahoneys stayed to
supper and returned home at 11 pm.
Bernard here in afternoon went home
long enough to do the chores then came back
accompanied by Mabel for an evenings visit.
Ethel here for sugar. Will R here but didn't
stay a long time. Al Percy and wife over
visiting at uncle Samy's.

Monday 28 February 1898 last day of month
A beautiful bright day cloudless. Earth
spottersly [sic] white, warm in sunlight, froze last
night. Maud at school, Grace washing Edna
cooking & washing dishes. Irene darning stockings.
Sr mending bags. V working in shop. Mart choring
around. Little Gracie singing, Maggie de tows
are in de tovey. Greenfield here again about
the Rogers affair. Im sorry for Sr and for all
of us & only for trust and forth in the Feud that
never forsakes. I dont fear what the hand of
mortal man can do. After washing the dinner
dishes Edna walked to Wellies to stay all pm.
V and FW gone up on the ice to the practice.
This evening Grace & Martin gone to Willies.