IMH 75:2 198-199

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

1881

Monday, April 25th.

It was showery in the morning and in the evening and
rained considerably here both times. It quit before eight o'clock
this morning and Father meandered off on the assessing business
again. W. Riley Nosler came and bought 9 pounds of
clover seed for 90 cents and borrowed an inch chisel. I went
a-horseback down to Bain's; took them a couple of messes of
Peach Blow potatoes as a present and got some yeast. After
dinner I went to plowing the buckwheat ground for oats. It was
very hot. Father got home about five o'clock and sowed part of
his oats (bought in town last Saturday) on the ground already plowed.
We were both driven in by a shower and quit for the night.
That job came near being too much for me.

Teaching note: "That job came near being too much for me" is the closest comment
to a complaint about the hard word that they did. Plowing ground with a plow pulled by
a horse is no easy task. I plowed ground with a team of oxen once.. hard work.. very hard...
and it "came near being too much for me" as well.