Apl 25 1893 .

Sun. 23. Squally most of the day sunshine at intervals spent the evening at Mr J. English's

Mon. 24. Fine but quite cold rain at night

Tue. 25. Cold but clear freezing hard cloudy up at night

Wed. 26. Mostly cloudy quite warm at noon

Thur. 27. Cold and cloudy rain hard most of the forenoon sun shining in in the afternoon cloudy tonight

Fri. 28. Mild and spring like mostly cloudy quite warm tonight

Sat. 29. Fine and warm partly cloudy looking like rain at night walk down to Mrs Lane's this afternoon to remain over Sunday stopped at the Finger Board (at Henderson's Factory) to view things and found the factory not in as good a shape as mine Rose Hill Dufferin

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Apl 30th 1893.

Sun. 30. Lovely day at Mrs Lanes today D. Bryant Chas Lane and myself went for a row in the St Lawrence in the forenoon in the afternoon we attended church and in the evening Chas Lane brought me home to Dufferin and attended the church here commenced raining about 9: 30 P.M. and continued all night.

Mon. 1

May 1st 1893

Mon. 1. Raining all day long nearly as hard as it could pour

Tue.2. Dull and cloudy this morning heavy fogg settled to the ground and partly clearing up

Wed. 3. Mild today and sun shining during the forenoon preparing for a storm tonight raining 10:30 P.M.

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