June 26th 1892.

Sun. 26th fine cool morning clouding over about 11 A.M. it suddenly commenced raining and partly hail as if a cloud had burst continuing about an hour attended church and S School spent the day at Mrs Cowan's and enjoyed myself very much

Mon. 27 dull and cloudy commenced raining quite early in the morning continuing all day accompanied with thunder in the afternoon and evening the afternoons rain was something remarkable almost a deluge everywhere one {illegible} of thunder was terrific unprecedented in my time the rain Bow this evening was just grand the most beautiful I ever saw

{in the margin written vertically} Rainbow extended from point E. to {illegible} and remained very brilliant for 8 {illegible}

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June 28th 1892.

Thur. 28th very cool today partly cloudy with high S. West Wind quite cold tonight

Wed. 29 fine in the morning with frequent showers during the day accompanied with thunder fine cool evening

Thur. 30 rained all the fornoon very hard coming down in torents to the whol while clearing off at noon and very fine the remainder of the day was at Mrs Cowan's and me and Mr and Mrs Harding Jonathan John Harding Mrs Grice and daughter busied ourselves picking strawberries for Mrs Cowan all together we spent a pleasant evening

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