Sec. 3 Atkins reports page 44.... _Nov. 7_ Mr. L. & myself to Woodbury. Nate (horse that is) broke loose ran away with the gig—for a mile. Sally Porter (that was) gave us a most excellent dinner—Fortunate man I am that the gig was not ruined. “Like Sir John Cutler’s stockings our present Constitution is to be darned & mended till not a speck of the original texture is left.” Ev. Post. It was actually so of the first ship that went round the world. _Nov. 8_ went to chace the fox with Jo & Land in a drizzling storm of wind. Miss Skinner, the Gov. of Vermont’s daughter, at B. De Forest’s says Oliver & Conard are to be married this evening at Miss Pierce’s. * * * * * _Nov. 12_ a terrible storm of snow, 10 inches deep & not a trifle remarkable for the earliness of the season. _Nov. 13_ “The Paddy sat down by a river, saying, I can cross over soon—for it runs so fast that it cannot run long.” _Nov. 16_ For the toothache 1 Tablespoonful of spirits 1 do vinegar 1 tea do common salt. Ev. Post. _Nov. 18_ Mr. Daggett read me a curious letter of Old Reeve’s. Hunt Stone surmises that L. cheated M. A. W. to revenge an insult of that kind once offered to one of his Uncles by one of her Aunts. _Nov. 19_ Charlotte tells me a story of Aunt Hopkins & my mother how they used to “keep house” for Uncle Leman at L——, how they used chairs in those days which were “worked” on the seat by their own hands. & how a great deal of labor was bestowed upon them, & how valuable and fashionable they were—Aunt M. was one day employed in this way & was sitting in the Hall so that she could be seen from the street—Old Parson Bellamy was riding that way & saw the girl thus pleasantly situated & agreeably employed, for she was educated in industry. The good old Priest turned his horse to the door & said, “My child, do you know to whom it is that you are indebted for your present situation? You have the good things of this life about yourselves & it is the prayers of your good mother which has done this for you. I saw you all stand like lambs about her death-bed & I thought the wolves would have you.” _Nov. 20_ Mr. John Stirling has been here on his way to see a sweetheart, he looks well & is large & finely formed. Mary Ann Beers is the name of his inamorata—he says J. K. Livingston & Charlotte Landon are to be married this evening. _Nov. 24_ Walter S. Franklin Esq.[60] says there was kissing done at Charlotte Landon’s wedding—singular for so stiff & prudish a place as L—— * * * * * [The following extracts are from his mother’s journal transcribed in his own.—Ed.] “_Jan. 20, 1782._ Last Monday we had visitors from Town in Slay. we drinkd tea then Leman sent for a fiddler. we spent the evening pretty enough.”