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truth is I ought never to go away without a companion but I find myself now without any one I care to go with. The people here are very kind and if I could only find things to interest me as I did last fall I would be contented. It grows more and more of a problem where to go each year, and I find myself more and more lonely the moment I get away from home.

Tuesday 19. Each morning I awake irresolute and with a most lonely and miserable feeling. I am sure it would be different if I had a companion and then these infernal wholy incomprehensible "pests" make me wretched. I went off up the stream and worked on a study I made the day after I came and improved it. In the afternoon I made another sketch and came in at 3. There were three strangers staying here last night, a peddler, a driver and a man looking for a yoke of oxen to buy. I had a letter from Miss Nesmith from Mrs Medford telling me of the death of her mother. I wrote her a letter which the peddler is to mail for me.

Wednesday 20th.  Made a sketch of the Sawmill from above in the forenoon and resolved to go home. Orrin has engaged a team for me and I am going tomorrow. Worked on one of my former studies, and my best one in the afternoon and took a plunge in the stream in a deep place near where I was at work. I feel happy to think I am going home but I know I will soon grow discontented there. Still I will have companionship and I find life pretty dreary without that. Now to pack my trunk. 

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