[Tuesday]
August the 15 [1815]
The dairy,
as usual, takes up most of my morning on Tuesdays, and after finishing
there I picked a basket of black currants for Miss
Beamish. -- In the afternoon I sewed a little while and then went out
and raked hay. I wrote a note to my friend Harriet
this evening. -- And Aunt Clifford's girl
and her sister have been over all day picking currants. -- Mama is
now tying up her radishes and turnips for market
tomorrow morning. As that don't belong to my part of the work, I have
left her to herself. -- We have had a fine day today. I shall retire early
tonight, for I feel quite tired after my days work, and call for nature's
sweet restorer balmly sleep--how refreshing are thy downy pinions to
the toiling labourer who lays him down in peace, where no grisly phantom
haunts his brain of some black and guilty deeds. |