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11th This morning when I got up I walked round pretty smart, for about 1/2 an hour and then I was all down again. I have not eat in more than a week. half of what I have eat at one meal I don't have any appetite. Ollivier has gone home to day on Charley but is coming by night. Papa has started for Rockford so as to be there in season tomorrow. Cleveland has threatened two or three times to get him off the jury by presenting some criminal fault of his of which he was guilty in Brooklyn time will show what that great fault is After Paper & Oliver were gone I commenced reading the Lady of the Lake. In the afternoon Uncle Charles & Aunt Abby took a stroll? round the farm. Charley was dressed as nice as you please but Aunt A had on one of those indigo blues spotted with white and Mama's old hood which we sent out here. I should think she would be ashamed to wear it for my part. After they came back the children went to walk so Caroline & Dick, thought they would go too. when they came back they had some wild flowers which they had gathered which were very pretty. The day has been very warm and pleasant toward night, I went out to the stocks and walked round a little looked at the calves & which looked fat and well. Before Papa went away Davis told him, there there was a man came yesterday and drove away one of Papa's steers saying that it was his. At night when Olliver came home Uncle C. took much pains to come and tell him the same story. Charley said of course Mr Lockett would not call on him for a witness because he would take a false oath. he said he was down there with the man and saw him drive the steer off. He said too that if one of his Oxen should go off and be gone a fortnight, he would not take his oath that it was his Ox for there might be one exactly like it somewhere else, All these speeches and many others the unnatural anxiety he show a about the steer struck me as being very suspicious and I have a notion that Charly is at the bottom of the steers going off. After Charly got through Erastus came and talked on the same subject, repeating what Charles said about his being shown them &e Erastus said it was the strangest thing he ever heard of for the man described the marks on the steer which were just like those on ours (By the way I believe he had them described to him first) I think it is the most surprising that Erastus thinks so strange of it for last summer they had a yoke of steers go off and they heard of a man that had them, Erastus I think went too see them. When he came home he said they were as near alike as they could be and he should think they they were the same but the man said they were not, and they afterward found their steers somewhere somehow, put it all together and it looks suspicious. Olliver borrowed Shakespeare of Mr. Bushnell for me and this evening I commenced reading the merry wives of Winsor