74

falling thick and fast. Mart goes to
church. Wallace comes home with him and
stays to dinner and nearly all p.m.

Monday 3rd January 1897
Election day. Will gone
to election, our boys stayed home. School
open to day at lower school and here. Mrs Gordon
boards at Niles. Volty working on Ratrays
bobs. Welly came up.

Tuesday 4 Jan 1897
Cloudy snowing some.
A dance at Horns. Grace, Volty, & Martin
go with the Niles load. Welly came and
brought wormwood. Jimmie Morgan came in
evening with his bugle & disapointed to find all
gone to Horns'.

Wednesday 5 Jan 1897
This day like the preceding I sitting
a cripple by the stove with foot on small
chair. V think he ought to go to the