Lyddie diary entry 1

Dear Diary,

Yesterday a bear came into the cottage and started tearing the house apart. We all ran up into the loft to hid out.He couldn't get into the jar of apple butter. But he found the oat meal and started eating it while it was on the fire. The bear was in excruciating pain. Then he left. The babies and I started laughing hysterically. Mama wasn't to happy about it. She told us that papa was never coming back to us. Charlie and I live in a two room house in the forest. Papa has been away for three years. She told us the world was going to come to an end. In the morning she left with the babies.

We got a letter from mama telling us she hired me out to M. Cutler at the tavern and for Charlie to work at the bakers mill. So we went to take the calf over to M. Cutler's house but before Charlie and I packed wood up against the door in case we got some uninvited guests. We took the calf to Mr. Quaker Steven's. He invited us in for dinner. His children was as nice as he was.I paid them to take us in the wagon to drop of the calf. I was stuck right between Luke and Charles. The horse and cow were safely delivered to Mr. Westcott. Luke then took us to start our new lives.