Dec 21 Have been choring all day mother plucked nine roosters this morning " 22 Have been choring & cleaning peas & oats & filling up some chop. a very stormy day " 23 Choring this morning & went to town this afternoon with some chop & a few bags of oats & two bags of peas for sale oats <15c per bu Peas 1.50 Mother, Aunt Annie, and the children were at the school this afternoon The Children were having an entertainment & Christmas tree " 24 Have been choring all day and went to meet Jean (Mrs A Stewert) on the night train at Teeswater, it was 12-30 before it arrived. Annie meet Bessie on the Eleven train this morning at Mildmay " 25 We had a Christmas tree this morning for the children and we all drove to Belmore in the sleigh this afternoon and took dinner at the Manse. Mr & Mrs Inglis Scott & his wife, Jean, Bessie, Annie