IMH 75:2 203

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

1881

Saturday, May 7th

The weather was a great deal like that of yesterday with­
out the fog. I rested from my labors during the greater part of
the day. Father and Alvin went to town tolerably early and got
back about four o'clock. They brought the skeleton of the old
hack. It has new wheels, two springs behind, new spindles but
not much new paint on it. They also brought some "stone
ochre" paint to put on the walls of the fireplace room and some
"drop black" to be used in painting the hack I suppose. John
finished cutting stalks and plowed a good deal besides. I spent
the time while the rest were gone mostly with him and in
running around with Sayroy Kivett who was hunting squirrels.
In the evening I hitched to the stalk-cutter and cut the stalks
in Bill Hand's wheat and a few in the field below it. The hot
weather is spreading greenness very fast.

Teaching Note: Before the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, there was no
season on hunting animals. When preserving our natural resources became a priority,
hunting squirrels and other game was prohibited during the breeding seasons of the
animals.

Stone ochre is a browinsh tented color.

Ochre