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until affairs are more settled. Found they were correct. [[strikethrough]] Found they were correct. [[/strikethrough]] Call the roll, where are such & such ones? moved away. Some came in late, why are you tardy? Packing up, going to move this pm. Or have been helping some who were packing. Perhaps had been to the river to see some relative who had been there some days with their effects waiting for a boat. Took a severe cold going to school through the snow & sleet. The family insisted upon my closing for a few days. By that time those who expect to leave will be gone & those who move in will have become settled. Perhaps I have been just as useful among the people as though I had been in school. Could spend more time visiting their families, reading the bible to & talking with them. When it is warm enough to sit upon the gallery (as they call their rude porch) passers by stay to listen & I get quite a congregation.