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[[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] which the door swings, has slipped out of its mortice in the beam over the door and rests on the ground.

On Dec. 12th-13th – there were metioric showers.  The first night was perfectly clear and we saw about twelve metiors - most of them from the top of the hill by the barn.  Paper and Van Cleve and I saw the two brightest as we stood [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] by the wood shed.  The other night, when we went to meeting, we saw a few, but when we came [[strikethrough]] back [[/strikethrough]] home it was cloudy.  The metiors started near Taurus.

Dec 19  On the fourteenth, Papa ordered, from Mr. Heidgerd,