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30 cabin where they cook their food.  I slept in new cabin. Fearfully cold during night altho I was wrapped in four (!) blankets and two blankets underneath on [[strikethrough]] cot [[/strikethrough]] caravan cot.  Got up to put my poncho over me.  Unpleasantly cold.
August 12. S  Sunny pleasant weather got up about 9.AM went to the brook to shave and wash.  George and Malcolm still fast asleep.  Later on they got to cook their breakfast.  Keeps them busy.  Soles of my feet feel sore on account of thin [[strikethrough]] la [[/strikethrough]] soleless mocassins.  Put on two pairs of stockings but found it too hot so changed again after awhile to one pair.  The boys spend most of their time at their cooking and chopping wood keeping their stove going.  I subsist
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easily without cooking; on cheese and crackers and an occasional orange.  Intend to reduce my diet to the simplest possible.  What's the use going in camp and trying to go in for complicated meals.  Any third class hotel can do better.  Afternoon got visit from [[strikethrough]] Mr Bradley [[/strikethrough]] Bradley Middlebrook, his uncle, aunt and two young ladies from Yonkers. - I thought we could live here undisturbed.  George and myself [[strikethrough]] fixed [[/strikethrough]] arranged a bunk in the new cabin.  he felled and stripped a nice tall slim fir tree for that purpose.  George and Malcolm went to Marion River Carry, with their visitors and returned towards night each carrying a bundle of planks and a basket of food sent from Yonkers
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