Page:W S Hall diary Aug 1863 - Dec 1865.pdf/14

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1864

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30 run, and saw tracks of Natives crossing theirs to & fro, as tho. driving them, followed them till late, but could not come on them. Joe & Schum at wall, self painting dingy.
31 (Sunday) Started as soon as we could get horses, with Schum & McC. after the mission ones; found them far off at 3 p.m. (Natives had not molested them), brought them near home. McC. shot a turkey. Abram do yesterday.
Feby 1 Joe laid up with sore eyes. McC. Schum at wall, self at dingy.
2 Joe & Schum at wall. McC. after horses, could not find them. Self at boat, & ill. Red heifer with calf broke her leg in bog.
3 Making splints & attending to heifer, & odd work. Hands the same. McC. after saddle horses, not found. Weather so hot men cannot work after 10 a.m.
4 The Bull Durham missing for some days; McC. & L. after him, found with a broken leg, not like to recover or fit for meat, sent him home & told Joe to get him slung, & do what he could for him. Started after horses as McC. could not find them. Schum & Joe clearing stone out of yard.
5 Slept on horse run, searched all day, could not find horses as their tracks led us many miles from home, & then within 3ms. of house. Stallion came home. Hands as before & endeavoured to sling bull but did not succeed.
6 McC. brought in horses, men making slings; slinging bull, quarrying stone in fold.
7 (Sunday)
8 McC. & self cutting posts for stockyards. Joe & Schum clearing stone in fold.
9 McC. & self the same; Joe & Schum boring posts, Lewington after horses. Self cutting lambs.
10 All at work at posts. Lewington after (Dolly) & Saucy & Fan; brought in an Emu.