Monday, March 2, 1868.
  Cloudy all day.
Morning broke snowing
fast about four inches
having fallen. Snowed
hard till about 4 P.M.
The wind blew almost
a hurricane and the
drifting snow filled the
air so that it seemed
almost as bad as the
storm that we had last
year. About fourteen inches
fell. Ther. about 20[degrees] - 
10[degrees] - 6[degrees].Rose a little
earlier than usual and
went down into our cellar
to see if I could not shoot
a rat but I was unsuccessful.
School began today and we
were dismissed at recess.
Henshaw came up at about
3 P.M. and brought me up
a bottle of gun bronzing.
Spent the P.M. at E. Dodge's
playing biliards.
[margin]The snow in the fields is now nearly two feet deep.[/margin].
Tuesday, March 3, 1868.
  Cloudy most of A.M.
P.M. clear. Ther. about
0[degrees] - 12[degrees] - 2 below.
Rose as usual and walked
down to school with E. Dodge.
When I got home from
school let out the two
dogs. Then had lunch
and afterwards went up
to the Russels' and studied.
Had to study about
two hours. Spent the
rest of the P.M. in reading.
Read most of the evening
and began to bronze my
musket. Jup. will "who"
very well now.
The snow is now so deep
that it is impossible to
move about in the
fields at all.