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54      December 1862.
[[underlined]] Wednesday 3.[[/underlined]] I was occupied about the house all day, peared apples, painted the stairs & commend. the hall & read the congressional proceedings and the secretarys &c found the print too small of the Presidents Message & contented myself with abstract of it for the present. Got a letter last evening from Charles, saying that he had made a contract with William Sellers & Co for one year as head Clerk in their establishment in Philadelphia, that he would resign the Cashiership in the Shamoken Bank, the salery being too small for the labour and confinement &c. his salery will be nearly double what he now receives with the promise of an increase provided he answers., he will have five clerks under him. 
27°. s e clo 20 s e. 33°. calm clo 10 s w. 26°. n w, clear.
[[underlined]] Thursday 4th.[[/underlined]] I painted the greater part of the day on N 81. was in some measure interupted in my painting by company. Mrs. Benny Pott, child & maid, Mrs. D. Eber, Miss Becky Shall, we all dined with Louesia, Edward was absent at Minersville selling hay. Eddy Patterson came down for Mary to go home with him to see John Cunningham & wife he is just married.
Got a letter from Burd he is still near Fairfax Court.
19°. calm e white frost, clear. 45°. calm n w clo 2 nw. 27°. calm e clear.
[[underlined]] Friday 5.[[/underlined]] I painted the greater part of the day on N. 81. & 85. Eddy Patterson brought Mary home this afternoon. Edward has finished the wheat & oats.
21°. calm white frost clear. 39°. calm clo 10 s w. 32°. snow.
[[underlined]] Saturday 6.[[/underlined]] I painted a little while this afternoon on N. 85. I had prepared to make pickle for the meat but found the day too stormy for me to go on with it. I therefore read the papers, the wind rose after sunrise to quite a gale filling the air with driving snow, it also snowed a while. Edward went this morning in the sulkey to Potte. and returned this evening, his men were thrashing Rye all day. A load of coal for us. 
25°. n w clo 3 n w, the wind increasd to a gale after 9 oclock. drifting the snow laying the ground bare in some places at 10 it snowed quite fast for a half hour.