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1864

Oct
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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.