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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 did not get here till after breakfast, they got steam up and moved the machine into the barn and then began to talk of not threshing, "Bert was the only one of the this that wanted to Allan I guess thought it would be too cold out on the engine {the following words in brackets are guessed at due to being invisible on the page} {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 town and {g}ot their horses shod. and Sam went home. about noon he came back again and said he guessed 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 poor little fellow had been cold all day. The thrashers did come back this afternoon and we thrashed out the fur loads of clover seed and got three bags & about 1/4 bushel I get 1 1/4 bags. Young Bill Louis came over for {Tapper?} but we didn't need him so he went back. They got the machine moved over o the other barn but didn;t rtry to thrash any they said if it was very windy to-morrow tney wouldn;t come over. This aft. To-night Dick & I went up to the hockey match in Simcoe - Somcoe vs Hamilton

I was goimng to drive up with Bert Monroe but it turned out sucjh a rotten night the both Bert & I decided to take the train There was quite a big crowd went p from Dover on the Port Rowan train, we came back on the Hamilton special that brought the team up. We got there a little after eight, and had to sit and freeze by inches for about four hours. They could ot have begin to play before half past twelve and it got pretty tedious waiting, but it was a good game when they did start, We rooted for Simcoe and they trimmed hamilton 8 to 3. The Hamilton biys seemed rather tired the last half. We didnl;tget to bed till ag[fter three to-morrow morning Dad got a blank form to-night which he had to fill & tell about Teddisms. They named him Hubert James Harold. (poor kid) more name than boy. It was very cold and windy this morning and had been growing worse all day. To-night when we came home it was a holy fright.