IMH 75:2 200

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

1881

Friday April 29th

This was a pleasantly cool day with but a few clouds in the
sky and a N.W. wind. Father was gone all day to a region
named Joe Bradley's, a few miles up the creek. He went
professedly to take a hand in the division of the estate and took one
of the horses with him. I finished the Benge patch before noon
and during the afternoon was employed at various small jobs
such as helping to clear the garden helping to cut down and
remove the debris of one of the mulberry trees that grew at the
end of the house etc. Alvin was employed at jobs if anything
still smaller. Bill Hand reappeared in his wheat-field this
afternoon. John Bain came and bought a half bushel of Early
Rose potatoes to plant