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1^st mo 1866

1^st 7^th It has been very cold and blustery to day
Harry came down this afternoon with Corrie &
Belle who went up the evening before. We all
went down to Granfathers ice pond.

2^nd 8^th
The thermometer was -5 [degrees] this morning Evan
and Bob cut ice. Harry and I went down
to the pond to skate but found it too cold

3^rd 9^th
I did not go to school today helped Uncle Asa
cut ice in the morning.

4^th 10^th
Sister B. C. Cousin Alice Taylor & my self went
skating Schooleys dam had a splendid time
about 20 there we got back very tird.

5^th 11^th
Cousin Ellen Farquhar an Aunt Cary S
spent the day here. Mother Father and they
went to the reading scircle in the evening

6^th 12
Went to school nothing particularly happened

7^th 13
Bob and I measured up fifty bushels
of potatoes for Beny Johnson to take
to town. Hawled some straw in the yard

1^st 14
Went to meeting to day William Hartshorn
was here in the afternoon.