Lashey Tapping some Gathered 5 pails that 9 pails I got in the Barrels now Made a Fire in the Bush 3rd Began to Boil Boiled 9 Pails about 7 lbs of sugar made for the first Gathered 20 Pails to Day Tapt 16 Trees more made 3 Troughs Lashey sick Horses crofsed Summers Road to Day a Feast for Gordon of Sugar 4th Gave Lashey an order on Mr Harper for 7/6 in Goods Lashey went off Boiling about 25 Pails to Day Gordon in the Bush with me Black Ducks came Gathered 4 pails of sap not running to Day very well Cranes came all the Feathered inhabitants of the air came swallows Robins, Pheabe or Pewit as some calls them shooting commenced 5th Gordon and I Gathering and Boiling in the Bush Tried for EEls got 1 6th a Fortunate Day Boiling 10 Pails took it home to Sugar of with what I Boiled yesterday water raising near shore Ice opened at Francis Island sap not Running to Day Gathered 1 1/2 pails wild Gees Plenty 7th got 2 pails of sap Sunday 8th Low Sunday Running Gathered a 2 Barrels 9th 4 years Married to Day, Boiling on the Bush about 40 Pails took it home to sugar off 36 lbs Gathering and Boiling Loons came Seen a Boat crofsing to Hopkins Livinia Gordon Mary and the Baby all came to the Bush Boiled about 40 Pails to Day Keeping the cows and sheep in they make a Destruction in the Bush water very low along the shore 11th Gathering and Boiling some took home to Sugar off 12th not running much seen 2 canoes fishing eels at the Hay Island Lots of Ice going Down shot at a Rat Did not get him the Frog Music commenced 13th Gordon and I to the head of the Island the cows Playing the Devil in the Bush knocked out all the spoils went to every tree me very very sick Seen a canoe with 3 going to Charlies stopt all night Found a tennet that the wind must have Blown from shore 14th Gathered 8 pails of Sap cleaning the cellar and up stairs put the sofa up stairs some of the Hens commencing to Lay {second page} Lashey came from John Camerons making sugar there very sick after a spree yesterday sap running Gathering 12 pails of sap 16th Boiling in the Bush Gordon and I sugared off at night 2 cakes about or over 20 lbs sugar Lashey went off Lent him a Bag 17th Gathered some Boiling some 18th our Duncans Birth Day Made about 3 Gallons of Mollasses Let out the Little Ram Johnstons Light Lit on Cherry Island Gathered 12 pails and Lost 6 pails as it Leaked out of one of the Barrels 19th Boiling about 6 pails it is getting sour made molasses of it it will do for vinegar shot at 2 Rats did not get them Let out the Big Ram and the cows all went to the Bush a Havoc on the spoils and the Troughs Gathered 3 Pails for vinegar an left it in the Pot not many canoes or crafts on the water Spring 20th a Lamb for the first one of the season sheep it out in the Raining time Thunder to night for the first east wind Lashey came at night staving 21st Lashey crofsed I Put out our canoe for the first time this spring 2 more Lambs the sheep with the Black spoton, our nannie a Lamb its gone too no Luck with Lambs as yet 22nd Sunday and I to Fish eels got 32 to Day 23rd St Georges The Festival of the English seen Charlie crofsing to Ross Island Made the Ley or Li for the soap set the Pot a very a very stormy windy wet day east Wind water Raised some One of the Big soft maples of the 2 Blew down with the wind on the Flat Back of the Barn Frost and ice Last night ice going Down yet 24th Lashey went to Hunt Raining 25th St Ma{cut off} Day very unwell went to Head of the Island 26th Making the soap cold Day Sap Running took some for vinegar tapt some trees 27th took hom 2 Gallons of sap for vinegar Lashey came set my traps no Rats shot a Duck very very sick all Mr White coming to the Lighthouse