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the creek without anything at all
Game going north.
10 At his wife went into Licking
with Nan the idiot to cash some
cheeks & get a caravan for
Christmas them. The Solo hunters &
thel old hunter meet on our usual
up towards the snow peaks but
secured nothing they saw
a person on the cliffs at great
distance but they could not
get closer, I caught only 3 mice
& I got nothing in his traps.
after getting direct over with the
horse & mofin to Blackwell creek
& set 6 steel traps who
& some a jopes. Thursday was
fine & clear without strong breezes
on the way over the ridge I saw
several herds on the forest &
several large line of deer.
11 Today I secured two prizes
a chipmunk with 3 dorsal
stripes white tipped ears and
a small white belled squirrel
with reddish crisscross mark