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Friday July 24" 1885. I drove out with my father after breakfast down town to do some errands and up to Kingston. Picked the vegetables in the garden. After dinner I made an ironing table for the kitchen and busied myself putting two more strands on my new birch bark hat which Dunlap sent me today by express. The crown being a little too low. Now I think I have a very light and becoming hat. Girard and I attended a meeting at the city hall this evening to decide upon some possible notice of Genl. Grants death. It was decided that the Mayor issue a proclamation requesting all flags to be kept at half mast until after the funeral and that on the day of the funeral the bells be tolled and that two meetings be held one at Music Hall Kingston and one at Liscombs Opera House Rondout, committees being appointed for each. I was named as one of the Committee for Rondout. Sara came home by the Powell this evening. Mary is still in bed but somewhat better.

Saturday 25 Girard, John and I went fishing out to Leggs Mill. We had a violent shower while we were waiting for bait in Kingston and were out on the creek through two heavy showers, getting thoroughly wet. We caught very few fish although all the conditions seemed favorable. Got home after dark through seas of mud. Glad to find Mary is improving.

[[newspaper clipping]]
ON THE DEATH OF AN INVINCIBLE SOLDIER.

BY EDMUND C. STEDMAN.

O, what a sore campaign,
Of which men long shall tell,
Ended when he was slain——
When this our greatest fell!

For him no mould had cast
A bullet surely sped;
No falchion, welded fast,
His iron blood had shed.

Death on the hundredth field
Had failed to bring him low;
He was not born to yield
To might of mortal foe.

Even to himself unknown,
He bore the fated sword,
Forged somewhere near His throne
Of battles still the Lord.

That weapon when he drew,
Back rolled the wrath of men,——
Their onset feebler grew,
The Nation rose again.

The splendor and the fame——
Whisper of these alone,
Nor say that round his name
A moment's shade was thrown;

Count not each satellite
'Twixt him and glory's sun,
The circling things of night;——
Number his battles won.

Where then to choose his grave?
From mountain unto sea,
The Land he fought to save
His sepulcher shall be.

Yet to its fruitful earth
His quickening ashes lend,
That chieftains may have birth,
And patriots without end.

His carven scroll shall read:
Here rests the valiant heart
Whose duty was his creed,——
Whose choice, the warrior's part.

Who, when the fight was done,
The grim last foe defied,
Naught knew save victory won,——
Surrendered not——but died. [[/newspaper clipping]]

Sunday 26". A letter from Wilmurt tells me he has shipped my two frames. I hope to get them tomorrow and then will show my picture to a few of my friends. I mended the grey picture which was broken a few days ago by the leaf of the hall table falling down upon it. Wrote to Janette Hubbard and to Wilmurt. Called down at John McEntee before tea and met Julia Dillon coming up here. She said they were all coming up after tea which they did. We had a fine sunset and a most rich and beautiful twilight. The wind has blown from the North all afternoon and there is an agreeable change in the temperature

Monday 27" My two frames came by Express this morning and after gathering the vegetables I went over and put the Fuller picture in its frame which becomes it very well. Then I wrote a humorous invitation to Nannie, John, Annie Lee and Ettie Livingston to come see it tomorrow at 11 o'clock in full evening dress, refreshments next June" As the day seemed very favorable with the wind from the north we decided to drive to High Falls as Alice and Julia wished to call on Annie Norton and Lily McE. who arrived there yesterday. I went down to Johns to see Julia Dillon and invited her to go with us as she intended to go today by train and to drive with us at noon 

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