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extracted text: July, Wednesday 27

July, Sunday 31

Rained again last night but was
pleasent [sic] in the forenoon The boys
went to Almira home and Samantha
went up to Johns Before they went
I hitched to the mowing machine
and cut up one side of a piece of
grass and back mowed out the fenc [fence]
corners and then went to rakeing [sic] rained
in the afternoon

Pleasent [sic] and cool nights went up
to Fathers They boys went to Dansville
to meeting We did not go to church
any where [sic] to day [sic] went to Sunday
in the afternoon there was but a
few out we did not get home till
after dark had the chores to do after
we came home

July, Thursday 28
Raining this morning early and
rained hard most all of the forenoon
the ground is very wet Went over
to Squares this afternoon and over to
Fitchburgh and went to see [Lau?]
Stowell for Truman to get some money
for him Staid [stayed] to Squares till after
supper cooler to night [sic] after the rain
July, Friday 29
Cooler and cloudy looks like clearing
off went and got and openend [opened?] out
sixty seven dosen [dozen] of wheat un
loaded [unloaded] one load and went up to
Hiram Burrells and made a visit Brother
Holts folks were there Old Mr The
lps [Thelps] died this morning he was
almost ninety years old lacking
two days We are passing away oh
many has gone since he came on to the stage
July, Saturday 30
Pleasent [sic] and cool went to mowing
cut seven times around the piece
and then stired [sic] out some that was cut
before And then drew in two loads
of wheat and while the boys was un
loading [unloading] one load I went to rakeing
[sic] hay drew in one load and one of
wheat and then went to rolling up
hay

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