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55^o Cloudy S.E
February, Monday 7.th 1887.

Very disagreeable and
damp. the frost all out of
the ground. Ernest sent for
me via Riverside "Bob" bringing
the note over to me. I
left home in the buggy driving
"Fritz" & went calling of Ashton
& Brighton. The roads were in
a "fearful" condition. Found Ernest
suffering greatly with "Strangulated
hernia" complicated with a
testicle having receded into the
canal or oriface. I succeeded
in reducing it by "taxis" after
considerable perseverance. I
concluded to remain at Elton
all night. Ernest was able
to come down stairs & took tea
with us.

60^o & Cloudy S.E.
February, Tuesday 8.th 1887.

Slept on a "cot" before the
open fireplace in dining room
at Elton. After breakfast I left
for home bringing a ten pound
bag of "natural leaf" tobacco from
Jno: Howard's come past Brookville
finding the road better than
the other way besides having so
much more turnpike. I met
Howard store keeper at Brookville
on the road & paid him
$4.50 on the "fruit trees." Willie
has stopped going to school
having found it impossible to
give satisfaction in Keeping
up the "Furnace fire"&c.