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William Fitzgerald Diary, 1892-1893

William Fitzgerald Diary, 1892-1893_080.pdf

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May 21st 1893

Sun. 21. Beautiful day fine warm wind blowing quite hard from the south west

Mon. 22. Lovely day mild warm and growing day Farmers taking advantage of the nice weather many of them not having any grain sewing yet

Tue. 23. Very warm day but lovely till 3:30 p.m. when a most terrible thunderstorm came up the rain that fell for the time has never before seen its {illegible} strikethrough equal and I never remember of the wind blowing so hard while the storm lasted it was almost impossible to see without a light so black was the cloud and heavy the rain

Wed. 24. Duncan's birthday very cold and windy but lovely and bright Ms Hopkins teacher missed her chance to Kingston consequently had to walk

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May 25th 1893

Thur. 25. Fine and warm a light dash of rain about noon but of little account

Fri. 26. Mild and partly cloudy

Sat. 27. Cool and cloudy commenced raining this afternoon but did not amount to much a heavy fog this evening

Sun. 28. Lovely today quite windy most of the day attended church this evening Reverend Mr Campbell in the preached A good sermon and perhaps his last year a lovely Moon light night

Mon. 29. Most beautiful day and lovely at night Billy Castle came to learn cheese making today

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