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Reverend Robert James Roberts Diary 1893 (A/E/R54/R54 1893)

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Sunday 1st Continued
 
Sunday 1st Continued
 
January      1893
 
January      1893
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back with us to help I'm [?] as P.
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thought it was going to blow hard
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but we had little wind until until
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we was close to our bay. Near the
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Bluff Deena and R went ahead in the jolly boat. R. to see to the cattle "Doon" had tried to get them all in.  He had a tremendous fires in the house.  Rooms excessively warm. To bed about 1/2 past 11pm.
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Monday 2nd. Nearly 8 oc when I got up. went to look at sheep. another has lambed (L's a ewe lamb) in P.M. another(mine a ram lamb). Jack ? wanted me to give him an order for Brandy for Annie saying she was sick.  And I could not but note to Tomas or Lomas? re the matter.
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Terry put covers on sails. ? walked back to Thetis Mrs Welborn went with him as far as R/ or Th?
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I was at a/cn all day. Wrote to
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E T Bain
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Joshua Kingham
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E B Mason - sent chq
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McQuade - sent chq
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Jeune - sent chq
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John Roberton - sent chq
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Walter Bros. - sent chq
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[[right margin]] weather mild [[/right margin]]
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Rainy
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January Tuesday 3 1893
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Mrs  Welborn went away. Terry took her to Chr in "Mary" and mailed letters for me. One of the lambs died. Ian's washing chez nous, Deena now teaches the ? children for L. In eve old Jim Qua? from Pen? and wife came for medicine. I gave him plaster for his back . He was afraid it wd blister him. In am the boys hauled wood. I piled brush did not work much - not well enough to do a great deal of anything. Read for 1st time some of Kipling's writings.

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Sunday 1st Continued January 1893

back with us to help I'm [?] as P. thought it was going to blow hard but we had little wind until until we was close to our bay. Near the Bluff Deena and R went ahead in the jolly boat. R. to see to the cattle "Doon" had tried to get them all in. He had a tremendous fires in the house. Rooms excessively warm. To bed about 1/2 past 11pm.

Monday 2nd. Nearly 8 oc when I got up. went to look at sheep. another has lambed (L's a ewe lamb) in P.M. another(mine a ram lamb). Jack ? wanted me to give him an order for Brandy for Annie saying she was sick. And I could not but note to Tomas or Lomas? re the matter. Terry put covers on sails. ? walked back to Thetis Mrs Welborn went with him as far as R/ or Th? I was at a/cn all day. Wrote to E T Bain Joshua Kingham E B Mason - sent chq McQuade - sent chq Jeune - sent chq John Roberton - sent chq Walter Bros. - sent chq

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Rainy January Tuesday 3 1893

Mrs  Welborn went away. Terry took her to Chr in "Mary" and mailed letters for me. One of the lambs died. Ian's washing chez nous, Deena now teaches the ? children for L. In eve old Jim Qua? from Pen? and wife came for medicine. I gave him plaster for his back . He was afraid it wd blister him. In am the boys hauled wood. I piled brush did not work much - not well enough to do a great deal of anything. Read for 1st time some of Kipling's writings.