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and Charlie accompanied Maud & I
home. Grace having gone home before us
so we all had a little toast, coffee &
cider and good night.

Monday 12 Oct 1896
1/2 past 5 a.m. Wind North
and strong breeze: cold but not freezing
a dismal melancholy autumn day
cloudy and threatning storm. Pastures
green as June and cows doing well,
flow of milk much better than
earlier in season. Voltie gone threshing
for Geo Rattray. Grace not well
but trying to wash: brought some
water and obliged to lie down while
Jesse Reid here all a.m. an incesant
talker but brought 4 pails of water,
fed the hogs and brought in wood
and now has gone home to help Will
dig potatoes. Will & Charley had the team
to draw wood. Jess was very kind.
John Niles Sr plowing all day. Jesse &
Voltie went to J Niles to play pede.
Irene churned 12 lbs of butter. Jess drove