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1862-01-11 -- 1862-01-15

Sat. 11 Went to town, and attended the teachers' association, where I spent a few hours very profitably. Had a very pleasant homeward trip; read the news after I got home. Sun. 12. The Mason and Slidell affair is settled by giving there persons up to John Bull, although it is a little humiliating to us as a nation yet I think it is the best that we could do under the circumstances, but if we ever get a good chance at old Johnny I am in for a fight with him, after we get the southern rebellion straightened. Mon. 13. The weather is extremely cold this morning it being probably the coldest day of the season, several of my pupils came to the school-house with frozen limbs, but we kept warm having an excellent stove and good fuel. I spend my leisure hours reading the military tactics. Tues. 14. My school is still annoyed with the whooping cough, which has made such an inroad into my school as nearly to destroy part of my usual interest in it. It began to snow briskly this evening. Wed. 15. I visited Mr. Longenecker's family, with whom I spent a very social evening, Mr. Winnemore being there to entertain us with theoretical spiritualism.

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Sat. 11 Went to town, and attended the teachers' association, where I spent a few hours very profitably. Had a very pleasant homeward trip; read the news after I got home. Sun. 12. The Mason and Slidell affair is settled by giving there persons up to John Bull, although it is a little humiliating to us as a nation yet I think it is the best that we could do under the circumstances, but if we ever get a good chance at old Johnny I am in for a fight with him, after we get the southern rebellion straightened. Mon. 13. The weather is extremely cold this morning it being probably the coldest day of the season, several of my pupils came to the school-house with frozen limbs, but we kept warm having an excellent stove and good fuel. I spend my leisure hours reading the military tactics. Tues. 14. My school is still annoyed with the whooping cough, which has made such an inroad into my school as nearly to destroy part of my usual interest in it. It began to snow briskly this evening. Wed. 15. I visited Mr. Longenecker's family, with whom I spent a very social evening, Mr. Winnemore being there to entertain us with theoretical spiritualism.