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with him to his place just wouth of town, on foot, & he showed me his big lot of patent hives, bees, etc, Gave me a couple of nice combs of honey to take home - 1 lb each - Home at 5 - We had a good fish supper of herrings & flounders - Then wife & I took a walk down town to Post Office, etc - Big light in direction of Virginia all evening as though fire there - Home at 8 - Jolly evening with family Bed at 11 -

Chinese Funeral
Sunday Jan 11
Morning just before day came quite a smart rein for an hour or so - I was at home most of day - At 2 PM I went to a high-toned Chinese funeral at Chinatown in an open space in midst of the town as the corpse in a fine American casket, on trestles - At fot of coffin was a table with the usual repulation roast hog, mounted on a tray, dished of apples and cakes, some queer looking sausage or candy fixings etc - On the ground near the table legs were 4 little cups of ta and a tea-pot and whole handsful of burning rushes were stuck in vases near by - The Doctor & his assistant with white bandages around their heads were on their hands and knees on a mt, and a large cncourse of Chinamen were gathered

Chinese uneral Brother Sam
around = After awhile the band wagon started. It had a player of huge cmybals, a little drummer, a player on a sort of (flageolet) and a gong player - A few white people were among the spectators - The music exasperated the horses of the