James Cameron Island 29th 1902 March. Raining, very foggy, misty, cloudy. East change to west. Leander to Point Sovat to meet the doctor. Gave medicine to Livinia Senior. Miss Harkness sent a lovely box of precious value to Livinia Junior which she was quite proud of. Bad roads, Gordon came tonight. 30th, {?}. Rained east wind. Easter Sunday, the sun did not show himself this morning. Lots of eggs, killed a hen for Stanley. Seen a crane yesterday. Sat, not running, my sight is very bad. My hearing is not much better My {?} not any better. Better health good otherwise. Rained through hard the night. I make some mistakes and crooked writing. 31st of March, fine in the sugar bush, skimming rats. Mr Duncan and Ms Gillis here and went away without his dinner, too bad. Why didn't he come? Snowed through the night or near morning, swallows came. Frogs began their {?} Canadian Nightingale as they are called.

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James Cameron Island 17th of May 1902. Unfortunate day, Fernandez went across, took dozed of eggs. Took a can of syrup. Planting, planted potatoes. Let the horses out to pasture. Squashes planted. Very fine fishing, got 2 do not bite. Planted squashes at Stonecrock. 2 of them went to Lancaster to meeting Billy Morris and John Bodiva came. The boys came tonight from Lancaster. 18th, Whit Sunday. Mr, Ms. McLaughlin and Napoleon here. Boys fishing for perch. Frank Lemay and wife here. Randolph and Stanley came. I think I make mistakes as I cannot read what I wrote. Yesterday, a very fine day. 19th, Monday, my sight is very dim as I write this. Killed one of the calves, east wind. You can see for yourself, what a mean set of folks I have. Just look how they destroyed my writings.