Farmer oaks diary.

I have seen her again! Last night whilst wandering the plantations I saw what I thought was a low star but realised as I drew closer that it was artificial light coming from a crude collection of boards and tar that could also be called a shed. I went over to this creation and as the roof was barley above ground level I looked in through a crack in the roof to the scene bellow. It was the girl in the red jacket again she was milking a cow with an older woman. I heard the woman talk of loosing her hat over the hedge so I decided that tomorrow I would attempt to find the hat and return it to her.

I was wandering along next to the hedge when I heard the slow trot of a horse coming up past the cow shed. Remembering what I had heard last night and looking around in the ditch I spotted the hat a few yards away. After retrieving the hat I went back to my hut. Spying through a whole facing in the direction of the oncoming rider I saw the young woman in the red jacket riding along the footpath the trees too low for her to ride sat straight up. After looking round to see if any one was about and watching she lay back on the horse with her head on its back and her feet by its shoulders. She then changed her position once more and started to ride facing forwards as the saddle should be ridden as it was not a side-saddle but in a most un-lady like fashion she trotted towards the town. On her way back I spotted her again and after she had finished what she was doing I returned the hat and we talked, but then I mentioned that I had seen her riding this morning she seemed rather annoyed and looked at me as though I were a thief!

A few days later I was in my hut with a fire going and I know that you must have one vent open otherwise the huts can catch alight but just for a while I decided to shut one to warm up my hut. I lay down and the heat made me sleep almost straight away so the vent was left closed. When I next woke a remarkably pretty woman was dragging me from my burning hut. It was the young woman she saved my life. When I was better I thanked her for saving my life and told her my name, she then did not tell me her name but asked me to find out her name from her aunt.

Today was the worst day of my life for a long time, I love Bathsheba (I found out her name from her aunt) so I decided that I would go over to her house and ask weather she would marry me I don’t know why I did but I just felt that it was the right thing to do. I went over to her house in my best clothes and asked to see her only to be told that she was not in and had many men chasing after her any way. When I had just left Bathsheba’s house she came out and ran after me supposedly just to tell me that she did not actually have any men after her. When I asked her whether she would marry me she said, no and so I asked her to consider again and proceeded to tell her the benefits of married life. Again she said no and advised me to marry a woman with money. She said that she was not ready to marry and she says she is not rich and so was not right for me! I then told her that I loved her and she began to get angry so after she had finished I decided I had to go.