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The Journal of Edward Ward 1850-51

Thursday, December 26th

Thursday, December 26th

Again early at work upon the house. Tents, huts & temporary buildings—from the palatial frame house to the sodded tarpaulin—springing up all round. After we had sawn up some heavy scantling into rafters, we got Andy for a couple of hours; he sat on the wall-plate level and put us in the way of setting on the rafters, so that by the evening we had a good deal of the roof up. The house takes more timber than I expected. The choosing of the sections goes on merrily—ten have already chosen the best sections. The Lyttelton Arms on the beach is the scene of numerous disorders. Today a prize fight was taking place in open day—men stripped to the waist and bloody were not an agreeable sight for the pink bonnets and green parasols. This morning I put the people into their lodgings and left them feasting on boiled mutton and potatoes—much better one than we had, for a quart of milk and a sixpenny loaf did us well. We ate it heartily on the iron box. Cholmondeley has got cooking apparatus under weigh, dining on rashers and boiled potatoes.