My brother and I busy about settling some accounts… My brother stayed and dined with me today on some beefsteaks fried and then went away. At home all day, and very little to do.
Mr Pepper, the supervisor of excise for this district, coming to survey with our officer, and it being in the evening and our public house affording no entertainment either for man or horse, he took part of my bed and his horse a part of Mr Bannister’s horse’s.