a little dog when he coughs and looks like the mischief and I guess feelss as bad as he looks akthough he has been very good. Frank and I laid floor in the chicken house this morning and used up all the lumber we had so this after noon we did up all the chores and rove down town in the waggon and got , which we laid to-night after tea, we worked out there till nearly nine o'clock and only have it to finish up with a six inch board which had to be notched to fit the sdtudding. ~Frank has developed a cas eof oink eye rthis after noon and ha=s gone to bed to-night not being able to see out of his left eye. Dick came home to-nigjtht he first time since last Sunday. Very sofy & mild. An April day.

Sunday January 23rd