IMH 75:2 175-176

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

1881

Tuesday, February 22nd.

About ten o'clock Father started a-horseback to town. I
chored around at various things till after noon when I rode
Hemp the hoss barebacked up the road to Big Nathe Whitson's
gassing a good while to different people along the road. At
Whitson's I got the old saddle which Nathe had borrowed last
summer. It was apparently as good as when it left except that
the girth was broke. I rode up and staid a few moments where
Foster and Hand were at the wood and got home at four o'clock.
About a half hour later Father also came home. He brought my
overcoat with him, and some clover seed. Alvin had so far
recovered that he squizzed some and attempted mauling rails to
a small extent. Father paid Alvins tax and mine in full for the
year to-day amounting in all to $6.40 mine along was $3.90.
Ballingers hauled their old cow out of the "clover-patch" on a
sled with four horses. It was the same freeze and thaw as
yesterday but was warmer and muddier.