File #43155: "Theobald Toby Barrett 1917 Diary 106.pdf"

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I went down to Aunty's just at noon and stayed to dinner and after dinner pruned a few of the old branches out of the barbery bush for Aunty. I got home about three o'clock and got most of the lawn cut over here. Lila was over here to dinner. Dad. plowed all the after noon and Frank made a couple of hog troughs. Dad. plowed up a nest of rabbits this after noon. He killed two of them with the plow but brought two live ones home. They are only a few days old and I am afraid they won't live. Sunny but cool. Sunday September 9th Enah and I drove down to church this morning and Aunty came back with us to dinner. Frank spent the morning in trying out some new kind of solder he got at the exhibition which is applied like sealing wax and Dad. did chores and shocked up the twelve oat shocks. Aunty says he shocked more than the oats. I started to read after dinner but went to sleep almost immediately and slumbered peacefully till Aunty was ready to go down town and then I went down there to tea and to church with Aunty & Aunty Alice. After church I went home with Marj. who has changed her place of abode from the Bagley's to Miss Kerny's. I wrote Dick a short note when I got home. Frank and Enah walked down to church to-night. Fine, cloudy & cool. Feels like frost to-night Monday September 10th Frank and I took Bobbie down to the car this morning. Frank led her and I drove in the buggy. Neil wasn't around but we left Bobbie in the pen, one pig was the only other occupant of the pen. We went around by the station and got a poultry crate which Frank got from Silverwood's to ship his ducks in. We saw Huby and he said there was a heavy white frost down at the station but no sign of it at his place. When we got home Frank sorted out the ducks he wanted to keep and let them loose and I raked up the lawn. After dinner I took Belle & Queen and went back and disked on the back field where Dad. had been plowing all morning and Dad. finished plowing the field and started in to harrow it. It is going to work up fine. Mrs. Tupper came past this after noon and said Clem. wanted one of us to go and help thrash this after noon, as it was then about four o'clock and the machine wasn't there yet, we didn't think they would do much but I told her to go up and get Frank, so she did and Frank was over there helping Tupper till after tea. The machine just got there at dark. He wants two of us to help him to-morrow. According to today's paper the Russians are cutting up rusty again Korniloff is leading a revolt against Kerensky at the Provisional Government and marching with his troops away from the battle front. Cold wind all day & to-night.
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