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ed home, and found mother and Lilly quite well. We had not had a rainy day since we had left Mr. Dewar's.
  13th. I had taken cold in the night and had a very bad headache and stayed in bed all day. Father had a headache also.  
 Sunday Sep. 14th. In the afternoon father and mother went to church, but thought the minister a man of rather indifferent talent. 
  15th. Father went out and made a sketch. I tried to colour a drawing of Iona Cathedral, but spoiled it. Mother wrote to Uncle Samuel. Lilly read & played. A gentleman and tow (sic.) ladies came to see the sketches, and were very much pleased. 
  16th. Father painted a sketch of Loch Leven. I tried Iona Cathedral again but missed it. I made a watercolor sketch of a beehive, in the garden which turned out well. 
  17th. Father painted a sketch of Dunolly Castle. I tried Iona again, and succeeded. In the afternoon Father and I waded across

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the river, and had a nice walk down towards [Villchurn?] castle, and got a sketch of Ben [Foy?]. On the way home we got another sketch of the same mountain, which father is going to paint under a certain beautiful effect of color, which it has presented every night for two weeks.
The top of the sky has been bright blue, grading down into a yellow, which grew stronger as it approached the mountain top, the top of the mountain was of a brilliant pink, changing into a purplish blue at the base. The whole thing repeated in the river beneath. 
  18th. Father worked up the sketch he started the night before. I wrote journal, and played with Lilly.
  19th. All spent the day reading, writing, and drawing. 
  20th. Father worked up his sketch of Ben Nevis, and it turned out extremely well. Mother copied father's letter to Grandfather and Grandmother. I tried to paint a sketch of Ben Nevis, but botched it. In the afternoon we all took a walk to the bridge