IMH 74:4 358

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

Friday, December 17th.

Cloudy and threatening this morning. We started out as early as yesterday to-gather corn and got
one five rows gathered across the field when it began to rain pretty hard and freeze as it fell. We
were obliged to quit for the day. Father and Alvin went to giving the buckwheat another cleaning.
I sat in the house till after two o'clock when I hitched to the hack and went over to Loper's
school-house after Effie. I drove up and interviewed Cal Curtis awhile before starting back. The
road from the creek to Fowler's was icy, the creek itself had shelves of ice on each side and a
zig-zag course between sides through the ice. But we got back safely without breaking anything.
The singletree hook broken the 19th of November was replaced by a new one to-day. It did not
rain all the time nor very much after noon.

Teaching Notes: Here is a picture of a singletree....used in hitching horses