I Am Said
To Have Wasted My Whole Morning Watching My Two-Days-Old Chickens,
Supposed To Be The Acme Of Intelligence And Precocity.
The
afternoon was spent in shingling the hen-house.
It was only roofed
over with tar-paper laid on to the rafters, which answers well if
the wind doesn't blow the paper about, or that it has not any
holes; but as the hen-house is only a lean-to of the stable, the
roof of which we have been very busily painting, it has been
trodden upon a good deal in getting on and off the roof, and, in
consequence, the paper is much like a sponge, letting any rain in,
and drenching the poor sitting fowls; but with the shingles
overlapping each other on the tar-paper, the roof, will be quite
water-tight.
_Wednesday_. - Our factotum has gone into town, and we are
left in charge, E - - parlour-maid, Mr. B - - scullery-man, and I
cook. We have heaps of mushrooms at every meal, a most agreeable
change to the rice and white beans we have only hitherto had.
_Thursday_. - Hot day. A - - went into town to some meeting at
the Club. We have been dreadfully tormented with mosquitoes today,
also the big "bull-dog" fly, which, whenever the kitchen door was
left ajar, came into the house in myriads; but we find that
Keating's powder most effectually destroys them, and in a very few
seconds. We have been busy making a mattress and pillow for Mr.
H - - , really one does not realise how clever one is until our
genius is put to the test in an establishment like this.
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