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Tuesday Dec 20

Same -- About town all day -- Bed 1 -- Wrote application of Michael Albert Crane ("Alex" Crane) --

Wednesday Dec 21

Same -- Around on the "biz" lively, good & effectively -- Got Bill Bowden & saw him entirely past the Doctor -- Good subject -- Bed at 12 This was my 1st fee -- "1st blood" on my new business --

A 25 lb Turkey Allen leaves catheters

Thursday Dec 22

Same -- PM at Gold Hill -- Wrote the applications of Wm Henry Eddy, and Henry Goetz, & put them in the hands of the doctors, Eddy's with Webber & Goetz with Manson -- Walked up at 9 -- Bed at 12:30 -- At Fred Burke's Arcade Saloon, this evening I saw a dressed turkey for Christmas lunch, weighing 25 1/4 pounds -- He was fat and slick -- and the largest & finest turkey I ever say or heard of -- Was from Mason Valley, I think -- Received 9 catheters today from Wakelee & Co druggists, SF (in response)

Friday Dec 23

Same -- PM Gold Hill, canvassing etc -- Rode home, at 6 with JB Dazet on his liquor delivery wagon -- Evening about town -- Bed 1 -- Allen left for San Francisco evening train --

At Reno Christmas cold snow