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with the engine, which had smething wrong with the injector & they worked at it till long after dark. They said they would thrash in the morning if we weren't ready but we bade them come. Sam. was abut half drank and the other half frozen when he came in and borrowed our waggon to go home & {back?} wood but we noticed he hot the trail for town at a pretty good lick. To-night I went down to band practice and got home about eleven. It has been cold with a very high wind.