scald but only blistered one foot. He cried himself to sleep after a while and when he woke up felt very much like him self again as long as people would leave his foot alone but there are some beautiful blisters on it. Mrs. McBride came and worked around most of the morning. Dick went down town but didn't have to work much so helped Joe on the merry-go-round. Frank spent the afternoon and evening down town but came home to tea. For the first time I can remember I spent the entire first of July at home. Huby came over and we went back to the gully to finish barricading the little trees but didn't get much done on account of the rain. Dad rolled down what he ploughed this morning and this afternoon we hung around till Bob. Davis came and then Dad. under took to ring the old sow. He fooled around trying to get a rope in her mouth and when he did and made three attempts to ring her with one ring sticking the rope slipped out of her mouth I thought it would take all the afternoon un less the old sow got mad and ripped Dad's leg off so I came in the house and wrote in this pesky thing. Huby wasn't any to keen about and Dad. couldn't manage alone so they worked in the garden till five o'clock when we quit to do chores.

Mr. Brady came over on his motor cycle with a bottle of mentholatum salve Elva sent over for Tiddums foot. There was an editorial in "The Globe" yesterday relating to A.C. Pratt's gambling and intimating that there were points in common between that episode and the one referred to in Bret Hartes poem entitled the "Heathen Chinese" Cloudy and cool all day and drizzly to rainy off and on all day.

Thursday July 2nd

I ploughed all day around Dad's strike outs and rolled down what I ploughed to-night. About another day will finish the ploughing but we want to start haying as soon as possible. Huby Dad. & Frank worked at the fence all morning fixing braces and putting in some extra posts. Dad. hauled the wire out and this after noon Dad. & Huby set a lot of it up along the posts as they didn't know whether Sid McBride could come or not. right away and Dad is anxious to let the cows in that end of the gully. but about five to-night Frank rode his wheel down to Marburg and saw Sid. McBride. He said he would be up tomorrow afternoon. Dad. and Huby came up early and ground one of the mower knives so as we can get started to-morrow.

Enah and Tiddums went down town this afternoon. Lila was over all day. Charlie Martin came over and borrowed the disks for some thing. Mrs. Innes told Enah that Perce Brock was here yesterday and had been to a lawyer to see if he could claim his