At home all. day and busy. We dined on the remains of yesterday’s dinner with the addition of a light pudding and some turnips. In the afternoon I sawed some wood. Oh, how pleasant is it to be at home in business, rather than hurrying about in the manner I have this last week; so I think no life can be so pleasant as a retired country life with a small competency. In the evening read one of Tillotson’s sermons, and in the day part of Josephus’s Jewish Atiquities.