IMH 75:2 194

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

1881

Thursday April 14th

There was a pretty hard freeze last night. The sun shone in
mostly a clear sky to-day but clouds denoting rain soon, came
up in the evening. Father and Alvin sawed a cut off an oak log
down in the pasture and Father split it into fence-posts. Alvin
hauled wood down to the wood-pile through the "orchard" from
his prospective" 'tater patch" on the sled I helping him We
quit that at ten o'clock; hitched to the wagon, put 17 baskets
full of corn in it and went to Jake's, by the way of Dan Kirk's.
We had no accidents and got home again before one o'clock but
it was very hard on the horse. After dinner Father disap­
peared till nearly five o'clock. Alvin and I finished hauling
wood, rails, etc. from the prospective "tater-patch" and Alvin
spent the time till night in an only partly successful attempt to
burn a pile of green brush. Father and I took the sled and
scraper; went down to the big road gate and scraped sand into a
hole that the creek had washed under the gate. Mr Leander
Lewis was here to see Pap about something about three o'clock
but of course did not find him. Bob Foster came this afternoon
and got the old musket and accoutrements to go duck-hunting
with on the morrow.