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cake and boiled some potatoes for supper. I was just clearing away the dirty dishes I had made when all the folks excepting Caroline rode up, she was going to stay all night with Mrs. Herdes little girl where Mama and she had spent the day. Papa had been siding up the house and had both ends and some on the north side done. We think of moving in next monday; Olliver has been unclear boards & logs & has planted some corn. Mama liked the looks of things very much. After supper Papa took his milk pail and went off to the Prairie to milk a cow which had calved a steer calf in the afternoon Mr. Cole brother to Ruffus Cole and the one that is breaking for us came to stay all night 19. Today it has been excessively warm, the sun and ground fairly

burned one. This Morning Mr Flemmings boy came over to drive 

off a couple of cows which papa is going to let Mrs. F use till her cows calve. Papa and Olliver went to the claim as usual Mama & I to washing & Dick to drawing in wood and chips in his waggon. Charley spent all the forenoon stuffing up holes in the fence with straw, to stop out his pigs but they could push it out as fast as he put it in. In the afternoon he sowed a little wheat and the rest of the day he spent in preaching to an old man who came here. We have finished our washing and dried our clothes 20 Today I went over to the claim and took my patchwork I brought up water from the spring till 11 o clock then served the rest of the time, in, the evening I struck through: sewed played backgammon with Caroline the water was to put on my plants which were doing finely some being in bloom 21st I went to the claim today sewed some cabbage seed set out some garlics and planted some celery it was an extremely warm day so I could not work later than 11 o.clock. In the forenoon? Papa measured off some land? for Mr. Cole to break and set fire to the grass as it is better to be burned over, as the wind blew very hard the fire burned very rapidly and went toward some rails? which Papa had drawn and piled ready to unclear up a fence and soon destroyed an hundred or more. I went up and carried water to help put them out. Papa burned all his fingers on both unclear which I dropped. When we went over in the morning I rode as far as the saw milll with Papa, who (walked the remainder of the way being about a mile from the mill to our house) who from there went to Mr. Pettingales where he got Mr. P and to yoke of cattle to draw logs for him & left his house & waggon to be used on Mr. P_'s farm in place of the cattle. They put on a yoke of our steers before each of of Mr. P._s cattle and so unclear to teams Mr. P drove one Olliver the other, after putting out the fire papa walked up to the timber found they had started with their logs, & came back again all tired out. I made him some sage tea and he laid down on some bags of oats to go to sleep my sage I cut from the four little roots I brought from Rockford they do finely. Toward night I went down into the cellar & dipped watter into the unclear which papa drew up and unclear on to my garden & the plants. he gave them a fine watering. I walked to the