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with the engine, which had something wrong with the injector & they worked at it till long after dark. They said they would thrash in the morning if we weren't ready but we bade them come. Sam. was about half drank & the other half frozen when he came in and borrowed our waggon to go home & {load?} wood but we noticed he hit the trail for town at a pretty good lick. To-night I went down to band practice and got home about eleven. It has been cold with a very high wind.

Friday February 7th

The men diid not get here till after breakfast, they got steam up and moved the. achine into the barn and then began to talk of not thrashing, "Bert was the only one of the this that wanted to Allan I guess thought it would be too cold out on the engine {and} it certainly wouldn't be very warm. Their only excuse was {that} the belt wouldn;t stay on in the wind. Mr. Odd was here {to}day for Mr. Fleming. Allan & Bert went down toen and {g}ot their horses shod. and Sam went home about noonhe came back gain this afternoon and said he quessed why they could thrash this afternoon. We did the chores all up there was a little more work for Dad. as this morning when he went out to the cow stable he found a red & white bull calf of Spotty's on the floor. We got it & her in as warm quarters as we could but the