1874-1876HCNDiary_042a

Sunday Feb. 22, 1874
This is a wet foggy day,
and the mud is worse
than ever this term it
seems. We went to Church
both morning and afternoon
Lizzie sat with [Winnie?]
and me this morning and
I took a long nap this
afternoon, so you may
imagine I did not hear
much of either sermon.
Lizzie and I got some lemons
yesterday and some sugar
from Mrs. Watson to make
lemonade this afternoon.
This is the way I looked as
I sat
patiently
laboring
with my
lemon
and my
fingers had lots of scratches
and cuts on them and the
lemon juice did hurt so.
But the drink was good
and I felt repaid for
my trouble; and now, as