home till morning" for him, he said it was pretty poor playing and sounded to him just like "To hell with Bill Langs. To hell with Bill {Young?}. When we went over to Billys he took us in and fed us up properly I had got pretty well filled up before though so didn't partake of much We were there quite awhile. and on coming out trailed down street in any old order playing "Marching throu Georgia" and such airs as we didn't need music for. I know I was coming down Main Street beside Carl who banged the drum, with Harry Moon ahead of me and leads out other parts both ahead and behind. It was getting late but at the door of the Dominion we found George Hammmond who we had heard had beaten Aikens by 109 votes so we went inside and kicked up a little row in honor of him Gundry who was last in the list of township councillors was also there. Hammond bought cigars but I'd had enough alone.

We played The "Campbells are comin" in which the horn drone on one note with out music. Harry struck the note but neither of us remember the name of it, I got Eb which sounded about like Harrys and played it all through finding out afterwards that it was the wrong note the right one being Ab. but Enah said that it would not be a discord although I guess it wouldn't have mattered much if it was and mabee would have been better to give the desired bagpipe effect. We then broke up, and went home I picked Dick up or at least he fell in with me as he had been spending the evening at the Dyer's and we got home about twelve. Every body was in bed of course but Dad. was not asleep as he was brooding over the elections, the only bright spot in the whole day for him was a little incident this morning.

When he was coming down Main street after leaving Frank at school. old man Stringer hailed him and asked him for a ride down town Dad. pulled up and growled at him to get in. and then said he supposed he was going down to kill his (Dads) vote 'Ah!' says old Henry "I don't know". "Well I know" Dad said good and savagely "darned well you are". They hadn't got quite to old Henry's place and hadnt gone half a block when he thought he would like to get out home and change his clothes, but Dad. assured him that his clothes were plenty good enough for the man he was going to vote for, however the old boy disembarked and told Dad. he thought he had used him a little rough, he had always had a great admiration for him Dad. said he had a mighty queer way of showing it. But what tickled Dad. about it was that Jack Martin told him to-night that old Henry has told the tale among the Vysebites.

It has been a pretty nice day as far as the weather was concerned, and a beautiful night, clear, frosty and moonlight. It think it froze pretty hard before midnight judging from the looks of things and the way the boards in the side walks scrunched and creaked, I didn't feel a bit cold although I had no overcoat or gloves on I think it turned milder towards morning.

Tuesday January 6th

Dad. drove the boys down this morning and got a sack of flour. Rus.Lampkins and his man came while he was gone but they