to invite Vernon as she wanted her to do so I don't know how it will pan out. I sat around and read and wrote to Aunty till it was time to do chores and fooled with the guitar all evening. It has been another lovely day. Quint came home last night and isn't going back right away to pick

Monday October 5th

Frank and I cut corn again all day and by to-night only had twenty one more shocks to cut. Huby and dad. hauled manure all the after noon. Huby didn't get over till late and they had to fix the sdpreader a little this morning. The axle had slipped ut of place. Misner the livery stable amn was over this morning to get the horses teeth filed and Tipper cam eover after dinner to get Dad. to go over and look at his Clyde mare but as dad. was all booked up he said he would wait till morning. Tupper was telling us a great way to cut short clover seed like ours in this year. He says if we cut it woth the mower we can never gather it up with the rake but he says if we take the table canvas off the binder ns set the reel low we can just take the heads offf and when we get the table full we can rake them off. He was also talking about tile drains. Bill told us there was no use trying to drain clay land with tile as tje water won't go through it, but Tupper says