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1864
Oct cont. | 26 | which were far off, brought them to sheep station, came home p.m. found & cut pole for dray. |
27 | Carting pole etc. T. raising stone, p.m. working at pole, found it too bad to put in, went with T. & cut another. | |
28 | Brought in pole & made it. Tucker raising stone, fixing vice, & grindstone. | |
29 | Working at dray with T., Albert brought all the cattle in & took them down river. | |
30 | (Sunday) | |
31 | Building stone kitchen with Tucker, A. after horses & saw cattle. | |
Nov. | 1 | The same, carting clay, dressing stone etc. |
2 | Making sledge, sorting staves for water cask, mixing morter. A. with provisions to station, to draw bushes to yard, but returned with 3 Kangaroos, leaving 2 there. L. & Jacky having caught 4. | |
3 | Tucker clearing stone off road, self carting & at other small jobs. A. sent to station to draw bushes for yards. | |
4 | Tucker & self making door & window frames for kitchen. A. returned from Station. | |
5 | The same, & making level etc. A. looked up all the cattle. | |
6 | (Sunday) A. went to station & L. to Withnell's A. saw all the horses below. | |
7 | Tucker & A. cleaning away rubbish, self trying to sort out water cask etc., & down to station. | |
8 | Counted sheep, 587 with all docked lambs, (42 not cut), after mare was found came home, spent remainder of day coopering, & carting, at the former. A. & T. had been mostly employed while I was away. | |
9 | T. & self building kitchen. A. returned from Station with half a kangaroo. L. with dogs having killed one, & 2 native dogs. |