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should you see us you would not call it any living at all. Olliver has planted a little sweet corn & strewn a few rails? Dick is all hoito toity here he feels so pleased to get over to the unclear he has been drawing chips fetching water to put on to the garden and a great, deal of other business All the farmer Mr Stephens had Olliver drawing in wheat for him, Mrs Flemming came in here to and wanted to get a straw hat for her boy who she said had nothing but a rag on his head and pay for it in eggs which Papa let her have. I forgot to tell you that Mr. Randall was here yesterday and asked me if I were going to teach his school I told I did not know as we could agree for I had understood that some people would not allow their children to be punished. He said it had been the case. I told I thought it would not answer to punish a fault in one that I would not in another. I told him I should be very strict. Well he said he wanted I should and if I had any schollars who did not mind I must send them away from school. he thought he should be ready for me to commence in about three weeks I have spent most of the day in sewing worked some in the garden 29th I spent most of the forenoon in reading & cleaning off my flower beds. Mrs Stephens came over in the afternoon and took tea with us with her little girl 30th Today I spent the forenoon in working in my garden it was very warm & the wind commenced blowing very hard about noon. Mr Peppers & Warner called. Mr P took some cloth ? had gone or talk with him on gardening. Toward night I sewed some flower seeds and some artichokes spent 1/2 and hour in Mrs Flemmings Olliver sewed and dragged in some wheat . Papa & Mr. Stephens worked on a Privy. After Mr P examined our table as he does most every piece of furniture he comes across being a cabinet maker May 1st Sunday Today I went on Charley with Olliver who rode him to a meeting over 7? miles from here, an event in about an hour and quarter. the road was first rate most of the way excepting a few sloughs which were pretty bad. We had a most delight ride. Sometimes we unclear by across the Prairie sometimes through the thickets where the crabapples unclear cherries strawberries and other fruits were all in bloom making the air very fragrant then again we were riding through the woods were the birds were singing the cowes rustling and every unclear delightful here. We unclear through the camp ground where Olliver pointed the different ferns and told their uses methodist. The ferns were made of a few unclear up there was one place called the anxious scout where there sat those unclear felt anxious for the souls of others then those that felt serious woud go up and be prayed for by them we heard a methodist meeting the preacher tollerable. after meeting I had an introduction to a number of people. Mr unclear and all his family was there and we all went down together to his house where we took