as mister dalton reads , i write : one ton coal ten barrels , pickled beef ten barrels , salted fish twenty sacks , corn meal three casks , rum eight barrels , ale five barrels , apples one crate , coffee three crates , tea twenty sacks , flour two crates , pipe tobacco five baskets , eggs one barrel , salt six barrels , sugar three barrels , molasses two four-pound tins , pepper mister dalton and i spend two and a half hours putting down the list of supplies , and i fill about half the journal .