Page Thirty John Braden's Diary

saturday 3
i halled 4 loads of dung after dinner we comenced to cultivate george went to town and got my mare and colt and brought them home

sunday 4
John and Ella come out John Harry and i went a fishing i stopped at all bright and got georges knife that Harry traded to their boy i gave the boy 40 cents we dident get any fish come home to dinner i slept after dinner read some george killed the old cat that catches chickens

monday the 5
we cultivated corn all day

tuesday the 6
wee plowed corn all day I worked my mare this after noon it is rainning to night i played the fiddle to night ____lee is here to night mr lee came out this evening i poot my cripple sow with the other one