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Tuesday Dec. 23. 1879. Marion and I came home by the 11 o clock train. There was considerable ice at Rhinebeck and Sara met us at the ferry with a sleigh.

Wednesday 24. Rained. We were all to have gone into the woods for a Christmas tree but it was so wet we had to give it up. There was a small hemlock on the sidehill which a boy cut into last fall and so injured that it would have died. Tom and I went down and got that and carried it into the kitchen to melt the ice. I made a standard and after a while set it up in the parlor where we built a good fire and soon dried it, when Sara and I put the presents in and around it. I took little Charlie in to see it after it was finished and he was lost in admiration. We lighted it early on account of the children and it looked very pretty and gave great pleasure. There were present my father and mother, Girard and Mary, Sara, Marion, Jamie, Jimmy, Charlie, Tom, Maggie & Ernie and all got presents. After it was all over Mary, Sade and I went down to Jansen Andersons to their Christmas tree and staid the whole evening.

Thursday 25 Xmas. Went to High Falls to Fred and Annies by Special train to Binnenwater where Fred met us in sleighs and drove us to his house. My father, Sara and I from here and John & Nannie, Esther, Mamie & Robbie from Johns. Aunt Christina, Julia and Lily were there. We had a nice dinner around a great square table in the parlor, each having a dinner card painted very cleverly by Lily from Cruicshanks, and a bon=bon box. We had a happy cheerful time and all enjoyed it. The house was so comfortable and pretty and all were so enjoying themselves that I 

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