June 19th 1892

Sun. 19 raining this morning continuing very gently until noon but remaining mostly cloudy and threatening rain tonight alone all day attended Sabbath school and church at night being the farewell sermon of the Rev Trudeau commenced raining quite hard after church service acting like an all night rain

Mon. 20 not much rain the night previous lovely day very warm partly cloudy

Tue. 21 very warm all day no rain but looking very much like it

Wed. 22 extremely hot cloudy tonight looking like rain {second page}

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June 23rd 1892

Thur. 23 raining most of the fornoon clearing off lovely afternoon split some wood for Mrs Cowan and cut my foot

Fri. 24 lovely day warm and fine went over to see Mrs Cowans and had my foot dressed she is I find a very kind old lady she went to Kingston today and bought most everything she could think of for to cure the cut nothing seems to be any trouble or expense so long as I get along all right

Sat. 25 beautiful day foot seems a little better but it is tired having worked right along all the time Mrs Cowan dressed my foot tonight

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