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Mr James Cameron Island

20th of Dec 1893 a Fortunate Day W Wind cold Drifting Frosty Filed the saw air-holes shutting up Last Day of the Fall

21st Unfortunate Day First Day of Winter Blowing Drifting snowed some Drops of Rain Broke on a Marsh hay stack Marsh hay done in the Barn a Weasel at the Barn chopping stove wood the colt sick seen Gulls Flying West seen a Cutter crofsing the Summers's Road Broke a Lamp chimney

22nd a Fortunate Day cold turned warmer at night hailing not ver well to Day

23rd Thawing Kind of Warm hail Rain the colt very sick Leander crofsed to Summerstown Bought a Bottle of Browns Panacea 25 got the Papers Giving stuff to the colt The Colt Died to night

24th Fine Leander and Randolph went to Dundee all Bad with La Grippe there Squirrel came to the Grove

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Mr James Cameron Island

25th Dec 1893 Christmas Day some Rain hail snow Foggy Randolph and Leander came shot the squirrel that came yesterday

26th Fine W Wind Drew the colt Down on the ice to the shanty opened him most awful Fat Put Poison Below the Sturgeon Island very cold to night St Stephens Day

27th St John the Evangelist Day Fine turned Foggy snowing Drifting Randolph and Leander Making a Handsleigh set Traps for the Fox

28th Windy Snowing Thawing Making Decoys Holy Innocents Day

29th Our Angus B Day Fine Warm a Great many Ducks Flying Down the Boys Got 2 Foxes to Day 2 EEls Fishers at the sturgeon Island set Traps Making Decoys Northern Lights to night

30th very Frosty Randolph went to Fort Covington Leander to Summerstown got a Parcel of Papers from Dan Bought Tea 30 Gordon came From the Shanty

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