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On the back . "Our tyme runnes fast as we may sie
"which being spent then must we die."

6th May 1912.
Returned this day to the Stewartry and
have taken up my abode in a small un:
:pretentious tavern called "The Crown" in
Newton Stewart as I have some seven days
work in this neighbourhood The weather
has been abnormally fine hitherto, April
having been the driest April on record,
so I must be prepared for some wet weather.

7th May.
A wet morning - soft soaking rain, and
as I purposed going into the hills I post:
:poned my start till 11:30. The youth I
have secured is a grocer's assistant
out of work, but he is well mannered,
sturdy and knows the district well .
Hired a trap and drove up the left bank
of the Cree to Drannandow. It is good to
be out in the country on a warm moist
morning in the sweet o' the year. Driving
through the woods the scent of the birches
fills the air and beneath the trees there
is a blue carpet of hyacinths with here
and there a cluster of wood anemones.

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