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{first page} Mr James Cameron Island 4th March 1885 chopping Wood Fine 5th cut 2 Basswoods on the Bank on the Pit Point Drew some Wood Fine 6th Randolph Went to Fort Covington to get his Boot Fixed the Old Sheep had 2 Lambs to Day Fine Day E Wind Randolph got a Ride From J. McDougall going and coming crofsed From McDougalls Found a Muskrat on the ice Froze Paid for the Fixing of his Boot 45 cents Bought of Mr Long 3 yds of Calico 15 a yard 45 cents 7th Crofsed To PO Bought 2 Packages of Prize Tea paid all But 25 cents E Wind Fine Frosty got 2 Papers from Dan 8th Fine Cold Randolph crofsed to Mr McDougalls 9th cold Drifting Money's Horn Broke By someone very Windy to night I took an awful turn of Deafness could hardly hear but all right in the Morning 10th chopping Stove Wood stormy Drifting snowing West Wind young sheep 2 Lambs Oxley's Leg hurt by some way or other 11th Cold W Wind cutting hay 12th On This Day of the Month D Mc First came to the Island Cold some cutting Stove Wood 13th E Wind Drifting Cold cutting hay cutting stove Wood 14th Stanley's Birth Day 1880 Fine W Wind cutting hay commenced a Beetle to Make snow Birds plenty Drifting 15th Sunday Stormy cold 16th Eclipse the sun seen First Crows Randolph came from Mr McDougalls 17th St Patrick's Day Fine Cold Day Drew some Wood 18th Fine Day E Wind Randolph crofsed to Summerstown Bought of Mr Ward 1 Bar of soap Bought of J Summers 2 Bars 20 2 Bars credit 10 Spool 5 35 cents got our 2 Papers at Hamiltons Worm Candy paid this 12 Cut sumac for spoils A Man Passed up Before the Door on the ice 19th Lamb Dead E Wind cold sawing spoils Reading Papers Last Day of Winter cutting the Last Quarter of Beef 20th !st Day of Spring Money calved cold squally Drifting put the 6 heifers calves in the upper stable {second page} Mr James Cameron Island 21st of March 1885 Wind cold squally Drifting the Bung of the water-Barrell came out made a furore surprize chopping Stove wood Made a Few spoils put Minkey in the Big stable 22nd Livinia Birth Day senior Gordon here a Fine Day West Wind 23rd Fine Day warm crofsed to Summerstown with Butter 54 lbs did not sell it Bought of Mr Purcell sack of salt 90 2 Caps 80 Bought of J Summers Mollasses 1..75 on Credit Worm Candy 10 paid this stopt at Hamiltons got the Witnefs Heard a curious kind of a noise like a Busting of ice or Thunder or Earthquake But the Ground did not Quake it was Kind of in the air 24th Frosty in the Morning turned Windy Turned Fine W Wind got some Brush for the cows Looking for Hoop to get the Pot fixed 25th Annunciation of the Virgin Mary Went to Hamilton Brought the Pot to Tom Kenneday to put on a Hoop Drifting Blowing Fine * 26th Fine Races in Dundee Randolph went to Fort Covington Bought 4 1/2 yds of Overallstuff {cut off} cent Pocket Book 25 Brass Rivets 5 2 sugar spouts 10 Got a Ride Down from Hamiltons cutting Brush on the oakfield 27th Raining turned Fine Randolph went for the sugar Pot to Tom Kennedys Bought paid this cutting Stove Wood Weaning Moneys Calf Randolph went to Mr McDougalls for the sugar Pot 28th Fine Oxley Calved Randolph in the Sugar Bush Cutting Firewood the air-hole opened out Before the Door only shut Last Week with snow searching up the sugar Bush Digging chains Barrels and so on *26th John Hamilton Cameron's Birth Day 1876 29th Palm Sunday Fine 30th in sugar Bush cutting Fire Wood 31st Seen 2 cranes for the First and they Look Like as if they were lost no ice open 1st of April all Fools Day seen Wild Geese for the First Fine Tapt 40 Trees to Day not running lots of snow Birds Minkey Calved cutting {cut off}