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Mr James Cameron Island July 25th 1874

St James Day Mr Ryan here for Matches Gave Gordon 5 cents I crofsed to Viponds with 5 Dozen Eggs Bought 8 Loaves of Bakers Bread John Hamilton Treated at Summerss {illegible}ter Lincoln and I Heard George Bosell Left the Manitoba Put in 3 or 4 Loads of hay a very warm Day Kept the Horse in the Barn as their is a stick campout of the stable and afraid it will fall Down

26th Dog Days Begin High Wind Rasberries Ripe Spartan went Down English Cherries Ripe

27th Haying

28th haying

29th 2 Boats Yankees here this Morning Asking their Breakfast Bl{illegible} Richard and 5 others Left 50 cents Mr Fulton and Edward Plamondin here to night

30th haying

31st the Last of {illegible} I am to gather something to put Down at the Last of the month and the Most of the Month {rest of line illegible}

1st of August or Lammas Day at the haying Gordon crofsed to Viponds for Bread 1/2 lb Tea

2nd Rainy this Morning there was a Gentleman Trowling I own at the side of the Rushes he came ashore I went to meet him and he asked me to go out and have a Trowl with him and so I Did and was all Day from home Charlie Rose and Rocky and I went to Alexis Island and it was cold and Windy They left me on their way Back at the head of the Island here it was Mr Minkler I was with Trowling Minnies Birth Day

3rd Went to Dundee with Butter 8 lbs of Butter Bought 8 yds of calico and 5 yds at 10 cents 1/2 lb Tea Tobacco (Flour cash 2.75 Rope ) Pipe sweetys Rattle Lamp hooks

4th haying

5 Went to Vipond for my Flour of the Jennie

6th Randolph's Birth Day a Fortunate Day Mr Tutlemans Wife here Got 2 splendid Maskinone one about 32 and the other 28 lb I am not Quite sure of the Weight

7th {illegible} and Herbert went of Raining some to Day Gave him {illegible} making {illegible} hay

9th Got a linge about 16 lb

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Mr James Cameron Island Augt 10th 1874 I went to Dundee Gave Mr Phillips a Lunge Left Mrs N{illegible} McDonald some Pickerel Bought of AJ Baker Bong Caps & {illegible} of Ropes Hat Spy Glafs or {illegible} Washboard 5 yds cotton Jim and I came home together stopt at Mr Phillips had a couple of Rounds of First Best stuff took Dinner at Bills Bill Mowing with his new Mowing Machine got an old scyth from {illegible} at the Hay

12th Hailstones Mr Fulton John Kirkpatrick high Wind Thunder Lightning very curious Lightning Ryan Grant and 2 other Men slept in the Barn Henery Bosells Wife Died to night

13th Windy

14 Paso Bone Jim Hopkins Fishing at Hay

15 Haying

16th {illegible}

17th 18th at haying

19th Bismarcks Birth Day Mr Dunn came to night camped on the Lower Point

20th Taking in hay

21st crofsed to Summerstown Seen Burton Got a sm{illegible} Gave me a1 lb of Tea

22 Taking in Hay Mr Dunn and Wife went off

23rd Gordon Randolph and I went to Alexis Island Men there Making a Raft of old Wood they wanted oars from me Mr Murchison and McDonell here

24th came for the oars 5 of them a 1..60 cents I got

25th Mr Fulton and {illegible} here

26th Gordon and I went to Fish set Rofs's Island took Dinner with Mr Fulton on the Foot of the Rofs's Island a very very warm Day a Drowned Man Found and Buried on Hog Island a Frenchman of of a Barge one of these Days

27th William Lavellette here for hay Mowing Gordon and I

28th Putting in hay

29th at Summerstown seen Alice Burton gave acrofs on the Jennie John Vipond going to Lower Canada Gave Captain Smallman the Money to Fetch me 50 lb of Flour

30th Sunday

31st Mowing

1st of Sept at the hay

2 I crofsed for my Flour, Found a Basin William and Richard came to mow

3rd Dan McMasters Birth Day

4th Mowing the Back Marsh

5th at hay John Angus Birth Day Lavallettes Working at hay shot 4 Ducks cutting the Last of the fine hay Gordon and I

6th Last of the Dog Days

7th Lavellets Made the 2 stacks to Day Fenced our stack

8th William Fencing his stack 40 hours Devotion crofsed to Summerstown 1/2 lb Tea Tob Matches