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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1914

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the same place, we got the two eggs from him and the five Aleta had taken and went back and found what we supposed to be the empty nest but although we searched for quite awhile we could find no sign of the old turkey. We brought the eggs home and and got Huby's gloves which have been back at the wood ever since the fire. This after noon Huby lined out his ditch at the end of the <s>old</s> garden and got it started the whole length. I did chores and fooled around and Dad. put in most of the day minding Tiddums who is terribly home-sick. Winnie came over after school while he was alone with Cousin Clare and she supposes he thought it was Enah for <s>when</s> he was terribly disappointed when he recognised Win.
 
the same place, we got the two eggs from him and the five Aleta had taken and went back and found what we supposed to be the empty nest but although we searched for quite awhile we could find no sign of the old turkey. We brought the eggs home and and got Huby's gloves which have been back at the wood ever since the fire. This after noon Huby lined out his ditch at the end of the <s>old</s> garden and got it started the whole length. I did chores and fooled around and Dad. put in most of the day minding Tiddums who is terribly home-sick. Winnie came over after school while he was alone with Cousin Clare and she supposes he thought it was Enah for <s>when</s> he was terribly disappointed when he recognised Win.
  
To-night I went down to a surprise party
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To-night I went down to a surprise party of Hazel Silverthorne's. The sewing club was meeting at her place and she invitied eight or nine boys over, we all rounded up at the bank and went over in a body. We played Pedro which I don't know any more about than I do aboy=ut making toads, but still I would have had a great time onlu=y my head ached and I felt rather sick for some unknown reason. We also played a lot of other games to add to the card playing score. One table blew bubbles, another cut art paper dolls, another speared eanuts in a bowl with hat pins, next played crocono, next snipped buttons and the othe rmade some sort of rhymes, we had dandy refreshments but I couldn't take much

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the same place, we got the two eggs from him and the five Aleta had taken and went back and found what we supposed to be the empty nest but although we searched for quite awhile we could find no sign of the old turkey. We brought the eggs home and and got Huby's gloves which have been back at the wood ever since the fire. This after noon Huby lined out his ditch at the end of the old garden and got it started the whole length. I did chores and fooled around and Dad. put in most of the day minding Tiddums who is terribly home-sick. Winnie came over after school while he was alone with Cousin Clare and she supposes he thought it was Enah for when he was terribly disappointed when he recognised Win.

To-night I went down to a surprise party of Hazel Silverthorne's. The sewing club was meeting at her place and she invitied eight or nine boys over, we all rounded up at the bank and went over in a body. We played Pedro which I don't know any more about than I do aboy=ut making toads, but still I would have had a great time onlu=y my head ached and I felt rather sick for some unknown reason. We also played a lot of other games to add to the card playing score. One table blew bubbles, another cut art paper dolls, another speared eanuts in a bowl with hat pins, next played crocono, next snipped buttons and the othe rmade some sort of rhymes, we had dandy refreshments but I couldn't take much

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