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28th. Sunday. Church morning. Night storm came on. Not very big
Awfully hot. Wildes down spending the day & Jim P. here for tea.
1st. March. Monday. Bit cooler : raining some &.
2nd. Tuesday. S. hot. Got great surprise this afternoon by a letter from
Bob. Ma enclosed it. Was awfully sorry &c. that he didn't see me at Xmas but why didn't the goat come & see me[underlined] I'm not going to answer it for an age
3rd. Wednesday. School.
4th. Thursday. Up at W's tonight. Had great game of eucre. Hot again
5th. Friday. Mrs. W. & Miss went to Brisbane this morning. Going
to be away a month. Mr. W. asked me to-night if I felt equal to a
ride to Watana tomorrow afternoon & back on Sunday. I thought
over it & asked M. She was a bit shocked. Thought we would
want a chaperone then on reflection said it wouldn't matter
W. G. up there was engaged. Mr. W. was married & Jim S. was too young
6th. Saturday. Thought I would go up by train this afternoon
& ride down to-morrow. They asked for Mr. W. Gibson's grey for
me to ride. So up I went by train. Cost me 3/11. 20 miles ride
Aleck G. got bit of a start when I got there. However we
entertained each other till the other two arrived - 1/4-9. Then we
played eucre till 1/4 to 12. Miss Cleary that was is housekeeper
there. It is a pretty place - high too. reminded me some of Westwood
7th. Sunday. Went for ride in the truck to the top of the
plant. this morning. Pretty view but a bit hazy. Hot out too.
Rested & had a bathe after dinner. then set out for home
about 5. Got home in exactly 3 hrs - 22 miles. We did speed
along that first 19 miles then it got dark & the road was
sloppy - It had rained a good bit some parts - luckily we got
none. Didn't feel tired scarcely at all. Such a lovely horse tho -
to ride - could have gone as far again on him. Had a very nice time.
Jim paid me a compliment too - said I had a very good seat
for a lady. he could say that truely. Highly edified to hear that from him
8th. Monday. Bit stiff to day but have felt worse
riding only a few miles on the other horses. Wrote to Ma. Told her
Raining nearly all day. Much cooler.
9th. Tuesday. Cleared. Cold last night Mrs. Boreham & Miss Walker
Mrs. Manchester's sister came up this afternoon.
10th. Wednesday. Cold to day. Such a change. I felt it too last
night. Amused ourselves at home tonight. Gave Jessie G. a hammering this afternoon. The youngungs annoyed me so much.
11th. Thursday. Mrs. Martin came in on Tuesday afternoon to ask
me to come out for a rehearsal to night so as all the others were
going to Stirling's to spend the evening I didn't ask anyone to
accompany me - only Tom & Albert G. I rode Daisy & got out all right
Mr. & Mrs. Porter were there & Mr. Webb from Sharon. the latter has
a very nice voice. We had a nice evening only their clock was slow
outmore[sic] than an hour & we didn't leave till the moon was nearly
down & the saddle rolled coming along - fortunately Mr. Porter
wasn't far behind & he fixed it right. We got home serene.
12th. Friday. Another week ended - joy. Letter & parcel from Ma
yesterday. Poor little Mother was dreadfully shocked at last Sunday
must try & get in tomorrow week for 3 days. Going riding tomorrow
with Mr. W. & Jim S. Miss W.