man of his tastes would naturally devote his time to, as the work he is at now is what he enjoys above all things and his other vocations ranged from tending bars to travelling {illegible} and in the early spring grafting fruit trees which is about the most elevated sort of industry he indulges in. Dad. had to sit up till eleven o'clock with out his usual evening snooze and then suggest bed himself. It has been cloudy by spells. Bob. Davis was in this morning with Jaeger & Hamilton's big Percheron and tried Nellie and said he would be back next week as Harry Ansley told him to {breed her?} Saturday June 10th Dad. and Ashbaw left right after breakfast this morning for Mr. Fleming's and Ham Thompson's and Frank and I were to have gone back and brought our colts up but it began to rain and rained quite hard for awhile but we went back when it let up and didn't have much trouble in getting them up and Billy in the stable, a little while before they got back, and old Ashbaw fixed him up before dinner. This after noon we sat around for an hour or two till he left He invited Dad. & Enah & the baby to come down to see him Caledonia Fair, he said he would give them a bed three meals a day and treat them as mean as he knew how. He showed us how to graft trees as he is a professional grafter and told us what we never knew before and what has probably been the reason of our non-success that care must be taken to have the lowest bud on the scion just set level with the top of the branch. He also gave us a receipt for making grafting wax which was different and he says better than the old one, it was 4 lbs resin, 1 lb beeswax & 1 pint raw oil, melt & pour into cold water. After he left I don't think we did any thing very startling. It has been partly fair and partly rainy to-day. Frank went down to the mill and down town with the team and waggon this after noon, it rained while he was gone. Sunday June 11th Frank and I went down to church this morning and Dick and Aunty Alice came over with us to dinner This after noon we sat around till I thought it was too late to go out to Tommy Jackson's as Frank and I intended so he went alone down to the Ryerse's and they went over to Tommy's with him and looked over his museum as they call it. Frank