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light no. iv
04:00wind n.n.e., glass falling. bell on the hour. nothing yet from the shore.
05:12rain. the small dog at the foot of the stairs is not ours, again.
07:30changed the wick. the second wick this week. the lamp is uneasy.
09:14a passenger ferry passes, well off. waved; no answer.
11:00m. is expected on the four o'clock boat
11:02— above is not so. the four o'clock has been cancelled.
13:48a man on the rocks below the light. by the time i went down, gone.
15:21tea. quiet hour. the kettle has begun to whistle in g, not in f.
18:00lit. fog setting in early. the bell tonight is rung every quarter, not the hour.
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one day of one keeper's year. the days do not differ enormously. the
light is, in this entry, anxious about something. the
writer underlines nothing; corrects a single line as if the day had refused itself.
whoever m. is recurs on other pages.