IMH 74:4 p 335-36

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

Monday October 25th.

I put in most the forenoon pulling off another lot of corn and throwing it on the ground. It was in Bill Hand's
wheatfield. Father and Alvin spent the time on the building. Em and her baby42 came in their buggy and
staid most of the day. After dinner Father and I went to town with a load of the wood down at the road.
We had the side boards on the wagon and the bed full so that we had perhaps 3/4 of a cord on. Each of us
then paid our tax or rather Father paid all of it amounting to $10.78 his $8.38; mine $2.40. It was dark
when we got home. It was clear and warm till night when it clouded up and began raining. Alvin chored
and played around during the afternoon

Teaching notes:  A "cord" of wood varies in size depending where you are in the country. In Indiana, a
cord and a rick are uses to describe a stack of wood four foot high and eight foot long by however wide
the wood was--generally about eighteen inches. In New England, a cord was four by four by eight and
a rick was 1/4 of a cord,

You may have noticed that Monday was usually "wash day," But the visit of Em and the baby
probably postponed that chore. Washing clothes with no electric washing machine was a
laborsome chore.

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