P.2. Sunday 19th Cold with showers of hail and snow.

Monday 20th Snowing all the morning. Rob and Fred went to the village and brought 9 lbs of clapboard nails and 6 ^{1/2 d} shingle nails Booked to me. Shelling corn, dawing

Tuesday 21st Fine ale day, with 16 inches snow on the ground. finished putting up on shed.

Wednesday 22nd Fresh morning. Snowing all day. Putting roof on the on shed but did not finish.

Thursday 23rd I left Saugeen for Hamilton to get the money, sent by our friends in England. I left Robert to keep day book. Fine and blowing all the day. finished roofing the on shed, Ground corn. Bedeck the ?. Snow almost all gone.

Friday 24th Raining all day. Crosssurveyor the path. and chopped a little fine wood.

Saturday 25th Very wet alll day. 15 ^{1/2 d} lbs of white fish from John Est 1.11 d not Paid

Sunday 26th Snowing all day.

Monday 27th Fine the fore part of the day but clouded over in the afternoon. Father and Robert Underbrushing. Fred and Phillip hunting the beach after butter

Tuesday 28th Dull in the morning. Fine in the afternoon. Underbrushing in the morning but after turnips in the afternoon.

Wednesday 29th Cloudy with sunshine at intervals. Finished putting the white turnips and carted it 5 bag fuls into the cellar.

Thursday 30th Sharp wind and snowing most of the time.

December Friday 1st Very strong wind with snow. Ground a little corn piercingly cold

Saturday 2nd fine cool and cloudy. Underbrushing. Cutting firewood.

Sunday 3rd Cold and snowing all day.

Monday 4th Went Underbrushing but the cold was so intense we were

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