Monday December 31st

When two weeks ago I discoovered that I had only three pages left n this book I decided to wait till now and make a summary of the principal events of the old year's last coupleof weeks instead of making three line entries for each day. About a month ago i started to condense my entreis to an average of half a page a day and oif there had been as I counted on three hundred opages, I would have been alright but it was not till i got htis near the end that I found it fell short. Frank and I have had ti the chores to do every day sonce dad I wrote last as dad's finger is still very sore. For four nightts it was so painful that he couldn't sleep a wink and on the 19th he went down to Dr. Cook who was out of town so he went over to the old Dr. Toole who has just come to town and he diagnoses it as a felon and lanced it. Sunce then he had not suffered such awful pain with it, but it has been very sore and has been discharging a luttle ever y day till yeaterday. My arm is aparently alright again and except for a toothache which I had for a couple of days before Chriostmas the rest of us have been able to work & in fine shapoe. All our snow and good sleighing went off with