IMH 75:2 156-157

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

1881

Sunday, January 9

Not knowing what else to do I went over Jake's hill(16) about
eleven o'clock stopping a[t] Jack Hinson's(17) till some time after
dinner. Tom Devore(18) with his family was there. Bill Foster
afterwards came walking in alone. Tom and most of the two
families starting off early in the afternoon in their sleigh Bill
and I went with them as far as Howard Bray's(19) where we
found John Rodgers(20) Stella Foste(21) and Flora Lewis(22) visiting
and the man of the house gone. We had not been seated very
long when Jack H. put in his appearance having come afoot. He
and Bill left after an hour or so and we youngsters had fun till
about night when John starting to Poplar Grove(23) I accom­
panied him as far as Mt Olive(24) where I stopped for meeting.
But few were out. A sensation was raised by Belle Green(25) who
got very sick. It appeared once as if she would actually choke to
death. She would strangle, groan, clutch at her throat with her
hands and seemed in great agony. Meeting was dismissed (it
was only a prayer-meeting) she was fanned, snow rubbed over
her face, camphor brought from a house near by, and applied to
her face, all without much apparent benefit Finally a sleigh
was run up by hand, she was carried out and placed it and
started home. I got back home by 8.30 o'clock. Nothing note­
worthy I believe occurred here except that Bob Foster was here
for a couple of hours. The day was generally cloudy and toler­
ably cold.