Wednesday August 30th

Daddy plowed all morning and Emery fixed the steps going up over the wood-shed and then ripped down a partition in the floor in the old house where we are going to have the ice house. He sharpened my buck-saw yesterday so I cut wood nearly all morning and got almost all the pile of rails cut I also helped him a little at the old house. This afternoon Mrs. McPherson & Leon came down to get Emery. Daddy helped him awhile and then went and plowed and Enah and Mrs. McPherson drove down town with Emery's horse. Emery made a corn horse and he and I went back to cut corn, it is not ripe but he was just going to show me how to do it. We went about about five and were gping to get Quint's gun which we expected Enah would bring over ans hoot crows but Enah would not get it so we painted the rest of the shed of the