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Monday April 28th

This morning Dad and Toby packed the sawdust in around the edge of the ice-house and put some some blue-grass on top. Then we went out and cleaned up about 20 bushels of oats. Frank was sick all day and did not go to school. I think he feels better now as he is talking a blue streak.

After dinner Dad went out and cleaned out ditches in the north-west field this side of the gulch. Toby did the chores in the afternoon and then went out and dug up two maple trees in the woods besides fooling around picking flowers.

Between 4 and 6 o'clock while Frank was sleeping on the kitchen sofa and Enah was in the dining-room some unknown person came in and left a silver spoon on the kitchen table for Tiddums with his initials carved on it and then went away before anyone saw her or him. It was cloudy and windy all day with about ten minutes sunshine.

Tuesday April 29th

Dad. has been opening up ditches all day out in the field next Ivey's where we sowed the oats and is now pretty well finished. I cut some wood this morning and then went back to the woods and dug up a couple of maple trees one of which I brought up at noon with me & we planted in place of one of the dead ones along the lane. This after noon I dug up two more and Dad. & I put out one of them to-night. The othe rtwo I left down in the creek so asa the roots wouldn;t dry out. Frank has been home all day although he feels a lot better to-day. This after noon Wyatt Waddle came in with the {illegible} for the Massey Harris Company and he proved himself to gbe a good man for the company not only by persuading Dad. to order a manure spreader, But Dad. seemed to like him & showed him Queen who he thought like everyone else was perfect. We got the manure soreader on easy terms as we don;t have to make a payment on it will a year from next fall when we pay 28 dollars & 50 dollars a year fir the next two yeras. Dick told us to-night that Huby had got a job at the canning factory which they started work on to-day. He went down