December 1st A Lovely day but frozen too hard to plough Toby and I straightened up all the corn stalks that were left in the field in the after noon we went down and got the rain from Vyse in the wheelbarrow. I fixed the cow stable door

December 2nd Not very cold today but still frozen pretty hard Gus Stringer came with Kirkwood for the rest of his hay, and Kirkwood looked at the boys sheep and trimmed the wool out of their eyes. I put a window in the hen pen and cleaned the pig pen.

Sunday 3rd A very cold day we all went to church. Wese stayed down town, the rest of us all came home and stayed home the rest of the day.

Monday 4th Not so cold today I went down town took the drake down to Hubert, payed the township taxes and Bagley & Miller, got some stovepipe and came home and put up the box stove in the dining room after dinner and fixed up the cow stable a little.

Tuesday Lovely day. Tobe & I hauled up a couple of loads of rails before dinner and got in a loaf of corn stalks after dinner We finished getting in the corn stalks

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