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James Bremner Jr. Diary, 1881

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1881.

three Monday at O.S. market had 32 02/60 bus please sold at 1:49 $23.70 house $12.50 Miss B5 plow paid 50 poke grass seed 80 cents Sundries 45 equals $1.75 balance on hand $4.44 that how the money goes barley number one sells today at 80 cents wheat $1.25 oats 40 cents very warm day for Tuesday threshing did not do much forenoon horsepower lost small key which had to be replaced afternoon thrashed well I think there are about 60 bus spring wheat 130 oats and 61 barley got through Before Sunset father finished grass seed sowing across Creek very cold day five Wednesday I was thrashing at Charlie Duncan's Willie was harrowing across Creek all day father was burning stumps cold day 6 Thursday hitch stop wagon and dog for Drew five loads sand for stone root house it is Splendid sand and easily got besides for this Noel afternoon demolished part of old root house and help Father to fire stumps got them all going by Night quite a line of fire Willie was at Riley show today evening at Uncle W's arranging about root house seven Friday taking down old root house Willy finished harrowing a Cross Creek we then Drew away three loads manure that was round root house and by 4 afternoon we had it all down we then cleared Barn floor of barley chaff and cleaned up four bags chop three Grist 8 bags SW for Market got through at 9 p.m. 8 Saturday we had Thunder last night and this morning with a rainy day clearing up about 3 afternoon took over lime from driving shed to Cal stable for grout got out remainder of sawdust grout by taking off outside board between {illegible} nailed it up and through water and got one quarter of the side of stable grouted 9 Sunday we were at our SS again had very good attendance and pleasant day Mr Currie's text today Luke 15th and 17th the prodigal son had a pleasant home and kind father but here we find him in a far country and in want he makes a great discovery I perish with hunger next plenty in his father's house he makes the resolution of which there are two kinds one caused by remorse the other by {illegible} repentance {illegible} the spirit in which it was carried out turning to his father he laughed all behind hearty confession of sin a deep sense of his own unworthiness true humility make me as one still thy son Heroes and went to his father the Glorious results his father was watching his father ran and {illegible} him did not allow him to finish his speech clothed him fed him his father with him at the . MONDAY. [ - ]


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