IMH 74:4 353

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

Friday, December 3rd.

A cloudy tolerably warm day, with a good deal of thaw but it seems to me that there is nearly as
much snow as there was a week ago. We were all fooling around till nearly noon, I doing not much
of anything, the others putting what they called the finishing touches on the new barn. I cant see it
for the loft is to go in yet. Then Father went down below the Curtis field and cut down a small dead
ash that stood by the side of the road. I went down with the sled and we got it. Then assisted by
Alvin we hauled a load of oak stuff from the tree by the hog-lot gate after which Alvin and he hauled
or "snaked" a couple of logs. By this it was supper time, and nearly sundown so they only had time to
get up a sled-load of fodder. Stokely Stiles Sr and Tom Newbern gathered the rest of the Charlie
Warthen corn to-day hauling two loads up here and one home. It returned about 85 bushels to share
according to Stokely's estimate. Alvin finished that letter to Frona