Sharp diary 1918 page 131. Wednesday 8 May 1918 - Nash
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Wednesday 8th of May 1918
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The family get up first & use the wash-basin in the back porch. Maud then has it in her room and I get it last of all and manage to shave & wash in it after a fashion. Slept fairly well and should have slept quite well except for the dogs who barked incessantly in the early part of the night. After breakfast we take our lunch and start off for A. T. Allen — Andy Allen — about 5 miles off — a glorious walk over the hills, through woods, and the rushing Tye sometimes 100 feet below us. Call on several people on the way and finally on Mrs Fanny Coffey & her son. She gives me half a dozen fair — not very good — songs, and her son — shortly going to Camp — accompanied us on part of our journey. Eventually arrive at Allen’s house to find he has gone away for a week’s visit. His two sons sing & fiddle but all modern stuff and we console ourselves for our disappointment by imagining that the father sang nothing else. So about 2.30 we turned our faces homewards and tramped back in a very hot sun and — for the first 2 or 3 miles — very little shade. Called in on the Coffeys on our way and Mrs Coffey sang me 7 more songs really good ones this time! So after all I have not done badly to day. Get back soon after six and Maud makes me some tea. Rather tired after our 11 or 12 miles tramp but not over much so. The family go to prayer meeting after supper but we beg to be excused and, instead, retire early to bed — not however to sleep, so far as I am concerned because of the dogs who bark worse than ever!Location
USA : Viginia : Nash [0,0]
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