IMH 75:2 190

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

1881

Monday, April 4th.

It only snowed in short squalls, few and far between but
masses of heavy dark clouds floated over and a north wind
made the air raw and cold. We did'n't do much of anything this
forenoon. More or less of the time we spent at the sugar-camp.
Alvin made a tour of inspection to view the fence around Jake's
Foster 40. After dinner he and Father went and partly worked
up the oak tree cut down March 23rd riving it into a sort of
plank for fencing 14 feet long. John Kivett and Foster stirred
off again about noon and got about two barrels this evening.
They had visitors Donald Bain Sr(82) and Bill Hand besides the
inevitable ones. I spent the afternoon whacking wood and sit­
ting in the house.