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will git well tho I think hardly.

Self I think I am some better this morning tho not much

Fri 17 The morning is verry warm & summer like I went to Town

Saw Maryann Wills & Mattie Saw Sam Heely at Franklin who

S. Heeley ) was shot a few days ago by Tom Smith Shot in Town & Tom
Shot )
Smith (son of Zil Smith) is in Jail. Cotton is on the decline
Tom Smith
I got my Compass & took it to Bennet who says he will fix

Wm McKinley it & charge $1.00 for doing so. William McKinley is back & at

Jaggers (look out) he came a few days ago. A man by the name
Hudson
of Hudson from Mo. came & stayed all night also a man by the

Davis name of Davis. Greenfields Cropper stayed all night he was hunt-

Wash & ) ing a home We are trying to get up our Corn Wash Monk &
Monk. )
Wagon helped us to day. our Corn is not turning out verry well.
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A raining morning to wet to gather Corn We took both
Sat 18
Wagons with a load of Wood to Town Sold it for $3.00 each
Rain
I went to Town in my Bugga My Mule is too lame to drive in

the Bugga good many people in Town, many Negroes there
1865
Novr I[t] has been raining slowly all night Cold & cloudy all
Sun 19th
the morning A young man by the name of John Smith has agreed

John Smith to commence work with me until Christmas at $10.00 per month

& longer if we can agree he will set in to work in the morning

he has been recommended to me as a good hand & an honest young

man by Henderson Pig who lives near [Cal????]

Mon 20. The morning was cloudy & likely to rain Went to the Woods