Saturday August 12th

Emery, Dick and I worked at the stable to-night all day, and got the stalls pretty well boarded up. We had quite a time foraging for boards. Daddy took Joe and Ginger and rolled some of the wheat ground and then Vyse came over to ask him to go over to help him bring in his oats this afternoon so Daddy came up before noon and put the rack on the wagon. Art. Brown was here with a lame horse and a medicine agent trying to sell us some wonderful compound wjhich would cure anything in the ahpe of aches or pain warranted not to and turn up at the toes etxc etc. He was not very persistent though. Dad was gone all the afternoon Vyse had three teams and six men in the field and got all his oats in Enah went down and stayed till tea Dick and I both went down {Margin note} after tea and saw Unlcle Warsd conversing Nicly Luce in front of Taylor's Duck expected Ade Millman but