IMH 74:4 339-40

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

Monday, November 1st.

Bob Foster was promptly on the scene and Father, Alvin, and he spent the day on the cow-stable roof.
When night came it only lacked two courses of being done. I went to town with a load of wood. I went
up into Uncle Rips office to make a political inquiry, gawked around town a little while and got home by
one o clock. After eating I hauled, Alvin helping, two loads of clap boards from the pasture not far from
the stable; then turned the horses out and about night began a job of digging at the end of the kitchen. It
was a nice clear cool day-a "weather-breeder" I presume. Aleck Benge54 and John Bain55 were both
present for a short time on the premises business unknown. Grandmother Harrison died a year ago today56

Teaching notes: Here is a good example of the neigborliness of that era. A neighbor, Bob Foster,
has come and spent the entire day helping out. Do we see tht sort of conduct today? Some students will
hopefully answer yes!