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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1911

Theobald Toby Barrett Diary 1911 121..pdf

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Wednesday November 29th
 
Wednesday November 29th
  
It turned much colder during the night and froze and thawed snowed a little. Dad did not go back to plow this moirning as it was so disagreeable and he did not get an early start but went over in the corner field he ploewed first and shovelled ditches.
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It turned much colder during the night and froze and <s>thawed</s> snowed a little. Dad did not go back to plow this morning as it was so disagreeable and he did not get an early start but went over in the corner field he plowed first and shovelled ditches. I sawed a little wood. Gus. Smith was over this mornoing to see Dad Frank Vyse also came over to get dad to put another bandage on his mare's foot I cleaned out {Peter's?} old cicken house and knocked a couple of boards of the back of it so the sheep could get in from the orchard on bad nights. I tried to coax them in. ut did not succeed although they are fairly tame. I went over to the field where Dad was digging mud, fir awhule tis afternoon and then came up and read till the cows(which we sent back in the gully for a drink) came up and then I did chores and Dad cam ein. Aunty went over to Mrs. Arthur battersby's this after noon.

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Wednesday November 29th

It turned much colder during the night and froze and thawed snowed a little. Dad did not go back to plow this morning as it was so disagreeable and he did not get an early start but went over in the corner field he plowed first and shovelled ditches. I sawed a little wood. Gus. Smith was over this mornoing to see Dad Frank Vyse also came over to get dad to put another bandage on his mare's foot I cleaned out {Peter's?} old cicken house and knocked a couple of boards of the back of it so the sheep could get in from the orchard on bad nights. I tried to coax them in. ut did not succeed although they are fairly tame. I went over to the field where Dad was digging mud, fir awhule tis afternoon and then came up and read till the cows(which we sent back in the gully for a drink) came up and then I did chores and Dad cam ein. Aunty went over to Mrs. Arthur battersby's this after noon.

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