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Saturday October 11th

It looked so much like rain this morning just before we hooked to the soreader that we decided to hook to the waggoin first and get the husked corn, but just as we were about to start itnbegan t rain so we put the horses in again. Old Jonas came in from the feld, and entertained us for a while with a wild west personal experience of how he was starnded out west somewhere in Michigan fell in with a gmbling cowboy, and made. apile in a hurry & revilvers & knives, etc. Jonas has seen some awful time in his day if all accounted are true.

We then got the sheep in the barn and marked them all with blue chalk and dad. put the new tag we got from Dunkin in his sheep's ear and stuck up the tame ones ear with sticking plaster as she caught he tag in some thing or other day and tore her ear the full length. By this time the rain has let up and Jonas gone back to husk so we went out with the waggon and got about a load (21 bushels) but before we came in it was raining hard and we got prety wet. It rained ost of the afternoon, I read a little and the rest of the family cfacked hickory nuts, while thus engaged a small yearling heifer with a freshly brojken horn and along thin rope around its neck came into the garden followed by very bedraggled