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about 4 p.m. R came over to mail
letters or (magazines) and stays to
dinner. I remove to the warm, well
lighted veranda where I clean free from
husks and litter a half bushel, multiple
onions which V will carry to market
Thursday. Emma washes three bed
quilts and cleans Volties bedroom.
One hen hatching, she and her
chicks ought to be looked after.
John finished plowing corn growing.
V building fence. Mail Standard,
seeds from Miss Carrie Lippincott
Tomato seeds from Kenneth McDonald.
Voltie when counting the sheep found
one missing, and its loss is a mistery

April 1914 Wednesday 29th
Emma set another hen
A rainy morning and rained
all night. Chilly wind north. Voltie
went to the lower barn and when coming
home found the lost sheep, dead by
all appearance for a week. it was torn
and mutilated. V thinks the bull
killed the sheep. V & J cleaning oats
for seed. 10 a.m. and rain rain
Joe Woodman came to get V to
do some shop work and ate dinner
with us. Heard that the sick are
all convalesent. Bessie & Lizzie &
Louise. Churned after dark.

Thursday 30 April 1914
A fair morning Wind N. Arose
at half past 4 a.m. V going to Kingston.