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then discovered that the yokes were gone we asked him if he had taken them and he said he had that he had painted them and meant to have his pay for it and that corn too had got to be settled meaning I suppose some corn which Papa took once when he was away and in which he pretends Papa cheated him, but I saw him measure it myself. Olliver now went over to the claim, we told him to tell Papa to come right back but he did not come till night when he said he should take Charles up for stealing 6th I received a letter from Garnett? too day, with I was much gratified. Papa and Olliver went to the claim as usual. Mama and Caroline ironed and I took some powerful pills. When the men came home they said they had used up all the siding and there was so much back water the mill could not saw to night. my head ached worse than ever in the evening especially. 7th It rained most all day so they could do nothing at the claim. Papa wrote a letter to Mr. Amesworth? and then started to get a search warrant dressed in his rubber coat and moleskin breeches. After he had gone Olliver went to curring?down Charley (horse) and cleaning out the stable when Charley the man came along and told him the whole story of his wrongs just as he does to every one that will listen to him. he talked as long as Olliver would stay and then was obliged to stop. I told Olliver I almost envied him his happiness in listening so long to the Orrator. When Papa came home he brought a letter for Charley from Mr. Bushnell saying that Mr. Lockett had complained of his doing so & so and that unless he delivered the Property taken when he should be under the necessity of binding him over to keep the peace. Olliver told Papa that Charley said he would whip him within an inch of his life, for which Papa said there was a law that he could put him in jail. he told Olliver too that he had called on Mr. L many times for pay since he painted those yokes and many more his not worth mentioning. In the evening Olliver carried the letter in and sat down he said Charles would swear out between the sentences most bitterly and then he read it loud as though it were written to Mr. Lockett, then he raved out handsomely first against Mr. Bushnell and then against Papa and finally he said he did not blame Mr. B at all. When Olliver told him (which Papa told him to do) that he must put the property back by 7 o clock he said he would suffer Martyrdom first. in the morning Papa told Erastus (of yesterday) Papa told Erastus before evidence that all the improvements he made on this claim (as the claim belonged to him (as for security for what Charles owed him by properness? in his possession) were beholden to him as all Charles improvements are holden to me. Whats that you are going into you son of a horsey bitch and Charles flying round at him. I have nothing to say to you said Papa. You deserve a good whipping said Charley and I will give it to you. Come on say, Papa. I am do it and easy too says Charly I am ready for you says Papa, he however backed out either from fear or of the law I have been no better all this day my head aches unknown most of the time 8th Today it has been very warm and pleasant but I have felt no better on the contrary much worse this morning Papa and Olliver went into the barrens to get some wood they had not been there long before Louis came along and began to talk about Charles and so forth and then Charles himself appeared and gave Papa unknown sermon and threatened to bring him up for criminal cases in Brooklyn by which means he was going to get him off from the Grand Jury. Then Louis asked Papa if he would give up on the vinegar barrel if Charles gave up on the yokes, No was the answer, Then says Louis war is declared between you and Charles. let it go on said Papa not at all