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When Mama first saw them coming she thought we had better send for the men immediately but luckily we waited till we discovered the cause of our alarm. I am this particular to show you in what way we lived. The morning when the men went away we told them to be sure to return at night as we expect to be attacked though I must say that none of them appear much alarmed but Mama Caroline & Myself. the men have all returned however, today they have put on one side of the roof and a part of the other and have sawed out the window frames. Mr Brisbon finished his part today. besides him there was at work on the house Mr Gange, Mr Hill, Mr Gunsollie, Mr Cole, Olliver & Papa, most of them seem to think we cannot move by next Friday but we are determined to if we have to live on the timbers rather than stay here by Charles Cleveland. I now leave with the expectation of being disturbed before morning though I hope I maybe disappointed, Papa is snoring away in his rocking chair, and Mama & Caroline are not far from the same business Olliver is reading the wind blows wild 2nd I arose this morning without having been disturbed during the night except by a very unpleasant dream. this morning the men rode over to the claim Papa taking his tool chest some more of his pine boards and stopping to Louis's and getting some seasoned black wallnut boards which Louis took from his chamber floor shoving his things one side, this morning Mr Hill came over to go up with them, to the claim when he came I was just picking up the beds off of the floor & Good morning says he Why! What ye all doin her? You don't look as if you had got up. I told him we had not hardly. "Well I've been up done all my chores and sowed 5 bushels of oats." then turning to Papa we who was weighing out some powder "Come Sackett pick up those tools or parts of them will be forgot. So he made them stir round when he came. Two of the men finished their breakfast before