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174 July 30th and August 1864. with Mrs. Benny Pott, Edward went up for them & got home by dusk. Wormcassel dug out the big spring this morning & begun to wall it up about 5 feet square within the wall there 5 or 5 streams of water, the largest appears to be in the S E corner and quite cold. This afternoon we had a little shower which lasted but a short time only to settle the dust. [[left margin note]] hot. [[/margin note]] 65° calm, clear. 93° s w, clo 2. 79° calm, clear. [[underlined]] Sunday 31st.[[/underlined]] Mrs. Peale is better having had a good night & slept until halfpast 5. James & Matilda Patterson brought Mr. Edmons music teacher from Orwigsburg this afternoon. Telegraph news is that the Rebels have burnt Chambersburg and W [[left margin note]] hot. [[/margin note]] 68° calm & dence fog, clear above. 96° s w, clo 3 n w heavey clouds arose from the n w passed over the river as yesterday. 78° calm nearly clear, lightning to the south. [[double underlined]] Monday August 1st 1864.[[/underlined]] Mrs. Peale is much the same as yesterday, had a good night & this morning pain in her right side & applied a mustard plaster to it. I painted nearly all day on N. 102 and 103. Mary begun a coppey of R.'s Washington for Joseph Patter The Rebels burnt over 160 houses in the City of Chambersburg on [[left margin note]] hot. [[/margin note]] 68° calm se fog, clo 2 s e. 96° s w clo 5. clouded up from the west a smart shower about 7 with thunder & lightning 77° calm e. lightning to the east. [[underlined]] Tuesday 2.[[/underlined]] Mrs. Peale has had a bad night, kept Mary up all night, she has suffered all day with pain in her side & bowells she is rather easier this evening. I have been with her the most of the day, mgnetising and driving away the flies &c. Edward took Geo and I to the Pools this afternoon to give our Votes for the Soldiers to vote in Camp. 72° calm w clo 8 w. 85°. calm s w clo 5 s w. & son gave a shower and commenced to rain at sunset. 76° calm e rain. [[underlined]] Wednesday 3.[[/underlined]] Mrs. Peale has not been so well today although she had a good night, she was taken suddenly this afternoon with great pain in her side. Mrs. Hubley, Julia, Clarra, and myself had a siege of rubbing &c until this evening before she got relief. Mary painted on her Washington & a bunch of Grapes that
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So sweet, that Peale tends his wife, down to making sure she is not bothered by flies when she sleeps.