insects fly around my head.  Find farm at last – Barn gone except foundation – House pretty good – spring house in good repair and excellent spring –
     Back by trail to burnt over area – sketches of hillside and hills to north – two men at close intervals come down out of mountains – had been searching for huckleberries in hopes of selling a few –
     Back to S’s for supper –
     Evening walk out to see Tom Cooke – sitting on his porch in the dark with another man and his mother – talks about a trip made 20 years ago out in Ohio – was in Stark Co. from there he drifted on to the areas and populations of all the states, which he rattled off without hesitation –
     Sky full of angry clouds – a pattering of rain.  After calling up Bertha back to S’s and to bed.
     Aug 18 – Rain commences in the night – a heavy down-pour.  Would like to have slept but Mrs. S. was going toPomonaatMethodistChurchso I had to get up early – that is –eight o’clock!  I am undecided what to do – Mrs. S. packs a lunch but insists on coming back to get dinner in case I stay at the house – later  man comes over from church and invites me too have dinner there –
     Rains off and on all morning and I decide to leave and come home.
     The trip back – weather clears gradually and fromOleanon towardsE. Aurora, the sky is filled with magnificent clouds – the romantic clouds of late summer – Hills covered with dry bleached grass beautiful in combination –
                                                                          Aug. 31 –
     A dream early this morning – a dark room with a window in the east, thru  which one could see to the southeast – a Catholic sister was sitting by the side of a sick woman in bed, patting her hand and uttering words of comfort – outside the window a waning August moon cast uncanny shadows under the small trees and bushes in a yard – it seemed the hour was 3 A.M.
     I awake – I looked out the window – Orion had risen in the southeast – the beautiful belt and sword sparkled between our house and the big maple.  I fell to thinking of