Monday November 15th George and I went out home this morning in the waggon with more luggage and while out there cut up the beech stick that was below the house, leaving some fuel as Ina promised to come over this after noon and light the fires & get things ready for our return. We brought over part of the load of soft coal that we got Saturday. It was after noon before we got back to the farm. Frank went down to Auntie's for dinner to be on hand to meet the folks when they came in on the noon car as we figured they would and which they did. The rest of us didn't get down till the middle of the after noon. Enah was at Aunie's but all the male element of the family was at the station to collect baggage which had just come in on the afternoon express. I took Marj. up town for some groceries and then went down to the station too. We met Tim with Aicara (?) Dimbula (I don't know the spelling) on a leash. He is the Labrador Retriever that Mrs. Quintin Dick presented them with. When I got to the station I found they had left but Frank & George came up with Johnnie Walker to get a second load of the silverware which came in to-day along with the rest of the luggage. I helped load it and went up town with the boys and as we got to the Royal Bank a wild scene and one which caused Dover to open its eyes and mouth; presented itself, as there were the 13 heavily crated chests with Dad. Huby & Ade Millman pounding & prying to get the crates open so as to put the chests into the bank vault. Quint. Dick. George Frank & I joined in the work and added to the general confusion so that after working for an hour or so that portion of Main St sidewalk lying in front of the Royal Bank was so strewn with boards burlap & nails that it looked as if a cyclone had been there. The chests were nearly all large and heavy made of oak with stout iron handles and a brass plate with Capt. Quintin Dick & the number of the chest on it. It took a lot of heavy lifting to get them stowed in the vault which is very narrow and we had to pile the chests 3 deep and now the vault is so full that I don't where the bank staff will put their books. We took one chest down to Aunties and Dad. opened it down there. It contained the flatware in five or six trays. Dad says they told him over there at the Bank of England where it had been stored that this collection had been borrowed on different occasions for functions at Buckingham Palace and that it was second only to the collection there and not a bad second at that.