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is driving cattle if the do not mind him upon the unknown he will bawl out. go along you old brut torment or something else and from him Dick has learned it as he does every thing else he hears any one say. When Papa was down south he bought a saddle with Jim which was left here for Charles who has worn it all out and hung what remained of it up on his house yesterday. Papa saw it laying on the ground and concluded it had blown down so hung it up again, this morning it was down again and Charles told Olliver he wished he would take it out of the way for it blew about so that it kept him awake nights, he said he had thrown it down two or three times but some one kept hanging it up. I think it must be that he is more easily disturbed than he used to be. Good night pleasant dreams 27th today has been sunday but i have not spent it as such for I have been sewing most all day. The day has been cloudy and pleasant by spells Papa Mama & Dick went in the pleasure wagon over to Mrs Hill and spent two or three hours. Mr Hill smoked a couple of hams for us one of which they brought home & a bushel of potatoes for we have to buy all the vegetables we now eat. When Olliver came home he brought from the P.V. he brought two Journals of Commerce and a Ladies Magazine from Henry. this evening I have been putting up flower seeds to every? to Mrs Morgan who I am going to visit in Rockford, she has so I hear a very handsome garden from which I hope to beg a few plants or seeds. Mrs M is a lady who formerly lived in Springfield opposite GrandPapa's. it now thunders and I am fearful we shall have rain tomorrow. Good Night 28th I woke a bout 5 and found we were going to have a very pleasant day for traveling, we took breakfast and were on our way by 1/2 past 6. Every thing is really delightful now the sun is shining very warm and bright and is melting quite a heavy frost which fell during the night which is the heaviest frost we have had for two or three weeks the prairie hens are so chilly as to allow us to ride quite near them of which there are hundreds and they keep an incessant cawing. The Prairie devils (a bird) are so numerous and the sand hill Cranes which make a great deal of noise these birds have bodies about the size of a turkey but their necks leg & bills are 3 times as long. besides these there are among smaller birds which are singing and chirping very hapily. A ride here before