scarcely hold my head up I was so bilious. Marj. fed the chickens and got wood for the box stove and coal for the kitchen stove and by noon the nausea had left me so I went out and milked but I still felt very weak so I didn't do very much else and slept most of the after noon. Marj. made me some toast about five o'clock which was the first I had eaten all day and I felt a little better after that and did up the night chores. It has been a beautiful looking day but keen north wind

Saturday January 24th

This was the day when we were to have presented to us rthe greatest and most talke dof drama that can be normally produced in the celstine stage, - the total eclips eof the sun. The actors rehearsed their parts accoding to schedule, but alas, the producer, our old mother, dre a curtain on the first act and peevishluy refuse dto rais eit, ntil just as they mad etheir farewell bow to the audience, so all we could do wwas imagine what was going on before our eyes but behond the scene. I don't now when I have been so disappointed as it has always been my desire to see a total eclipse and I have examined the patent medicine almanack