IMH 75:2 162

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

1881

Thursday, January 20th.

A dark and gloomy day like yesterday. The mist deepened
into rain about noon and kept at it till night. There was a
nastiness that made things look hideous as the bare ground
appeared. But little was done. Alvin squizzed uninterruptedly.
About ten 0 clock Father and I went into the woods across the
creek and hauled to this side two loads of four foot wood with­
out the sideboards on. This wood by some strange hocus-pocus I
failed to get last fall. He took a load with the side-boards on to
town and delivered it at Ed. Callis's (42). I suppose to pay for the
Gazette. He got back about four o'clock. A blunder which I
made in sending some word to Uncle Rip causes me a great
deal of uneasiness. I was up at No. 4 schoolhouse(43) a few
moments. Will(44) had maybe 15 noisy youngsters.

 

 

Teaching Note; Doesn't one wish to know what a "squiz" and
"squizzing was."