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Monday 9 Nov 1896
A medium day. Voltie plowed and
Wells building barn for Niles.
Maud at school, cleaning cabbage
for sourkrout. Grace and Irene cut
nine heads cabbage into the barrel
and wait till evening to finish. Will &
Charley came over to help make krout
but Wall Niles came and they all left
and went to Wills to play pedro and
left the cabbage to take care of itself
the kitchen. V came home at 1/2 past 10 pm
and found us all abed for we had no
wood to build a fire and he went
down on shore for wood and got
around to his own bed at 12 midnight,
took the small clock up stairs to get
out of bed by old clock, ran down
or stoped. got out bed at daylight.