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William Dixon Diary, 1854-1878
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1856
| 10 | October | drawing with tow wagons make sh{illegible} |
| 11 | October | drawing out wheat leeves comensing to fall of< |
| 12 | October | sunday cloudy cool and plesent and dry |
| 13 | October | drawing out wheat dry and plesent wether |
| 14 | October | drawing out wheat plesent wether kept the horse at night |
| 15 | October | making a neckyock comensed to dig the potatoes |
| 16 | October | pulling the apples dry and frosty at night |
| 17 | October | Ain Jane sent a letter plesent wether |
| 18 | October | rain and plesent withe warm rasping some {illegible}ves |
| 19 | October | smoky and cloudy some like rain sunday |
| 20 | October | comensed to fraim the shed misty wether |
| 21 | October | cutt my self framing finished taking out wheat killed the hogs |
| 22 | October | came home comensed to plough dry and plesent |
| 23 | October | ploughing cool some rain helping benjaman to trash |
| 24 | October | ploughing cool plesent wether |
| 25 | October | rany and unplesent ploughing |
| 26 | October | Sunday plesent wether and sun shine |
| 27 | October | ploughing windy and unplesent wether |
| 28 | October | sold the wheat and went to the show |
| 29 | October | plowing coald the leeaves are off the trees |
| 30 | October | |
| 31 | October | finished ploughing a field windy and unplesent |
| 1 | November | trashed the oats and some wheat old charley beging |
| 2 | November | sunday cloudy and plesent wether |
| 3 | November | rain went below to plough and to frame |
| 4 | November | framing at the shed cold and unplesent |
| 5 | November | framing cold and unplesent |
| 6 | November | framing more plesent wether |
| 7 | November | framing plesent and warm finished ploughing below |
| 8 | November | raised the shed stormy adn blustering |
| 9 | November | sundy cloudy un{illegible} |
| 10 | November | went below and raised the rafters over the shed |
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