is not very well either and has not been at school to-day. Aunty Alice & Dick left for Toronto to-night to see Billy Millman play, he is in Toronto all this week with Taversham in "The Hawk." Cloudy this morning but nice day.

Thursday November 25th

Aunty got up at six o'clock this morning and got my breakfast and I left for Caledonia. When I got there there was no sign of Douglas so the fellow at the station said I had better telephone him so I did and found that as I had said on my card I would D.V. be down Thursday morning he didn't quite understand and thought it meant to drive down, however he came right in after me in his Ford and we got out to his place about four miles out about ten o'clock, he showed me all through his cattle, he has over a hundred head and it was like going to a show, he has both Bates bred and Scotch bred Shorthorn's and some of the familys have been on the farm for sixty years. I wanted to get a cow with a record and giving milk now if I could but as he lets his calves suck all his cows so of course had no records and he advised me not to get a cow that has had a calf sucking her as he said they never let their milk down as well when milked by hand so I wound up by buying a two year old heifer from him which he said was from the best milking cow on the farm and of a good milking family, she was just bred yesterday and so I will have to run chances of having to breed her again to some bull around here. I gave $180.00 dollars for her $100 cash and my note for 12 mos @ 6% for the $80. He is to ship her up next Wednesday. I had dinner there and visited with Mr. Douglas for an hour or so after and then he took me down town where I waited for the 6.40 train for Dover. Mr. & Mrs. Brad. Bowlby were on the train coming up from Toronto. They had heard Billy Sunday give his temperance lecture. Mrs. Bowlby was terribly shocked and thought he was too wild all to-gether. I stopped in at Aunty's on my way home but had tea over here. It has been a beautiful day.

Friday November 26th