IMH 75:2 176

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

1881

Thursday, February 24th

I wended my way afoot to Jake's, soon after breakfast to
find out whether to haul him some fodder or not. Finding it to
be immaterial I got him to get me some "spignet'(66)and came
home. I hitched to the sled and hauled away that part of the
north line fence which helped form the lane at the end of Bill
Hand's wheat field. I took the rails down to the creek and left
them there to be used in rebuilding the road fence. There were
about five sled loads of rails and I hauled the chunks left in the
lane to the house. Father split up the remaining part of the
logs begun yesterday and put up part (8 panels I believe) of the
rails which I hauled down to the creek. Alvin and Mother
washed. The day was generally cloudy, the ground thawed but
little and the air was disagreeably cold