15th [FIGURE] The citizens of Nauvoo made a bee for
choping wood for President Joseph
Smith on his land north of the city I
went up with them & found about two hundred
axman on the ground & from thirty to forty tearms [teams],
about 100 loads of wood was drawn to the house
of the Presidents & as many more left on the
ground to be drawn another day. I swung an
ax during the day & was lame during the day night
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