TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1870.

Charley still keeps ploughing. Will and I have been picking apples this forenoon and this afternoon have been working at the cloverseed. The weather bears signs of improvement. The [word omitted] has got arround at last to a dry quarter. Have much joy & peace in believing the promises seem to be mine, still though I have often forfeited all my right to them. It seems still to be the Will of my Father that the union which my soul has so long desired shall even yet be accomplished

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1870.

We are still trying to keep the plough going but the days are geting so short that night seems to come before we have fairly turned arround. Mr Hurlow's man came after the lambs this afternoon. He got twenty two in all. We managed to save one of them for our own use. Still the weather continues to be wet and showery although yesterday I thought that a change for the better had come. I am enjoying precious seasons of communion with my God these days. Glory to his name.

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