wouldn't give him more than 1 1/2 cts a lb. making the excuse that he couldn't see the other night and didn't know there was so much wild flax in it, but Alan says he promised him the 2 cts for it. He then began to wish he had left it at Lynn Valley so he went and telephoned the fellow and found he was still willing to pay four dollars so on our way home we left it, although we hated to as of course the fellow rubbed it in about not talking a man's word. They were about all the after noon cleaning my seed, they put it through about three times and out of the five bags & a half of stuff I took up I got one bag of clean seed but they got it pretty clean and charged me $1.25 for cleaning it. We didn't know what to do with all the dirt they cleaned out most of it plantain which looked like onion seed, but we loaded it on and when we got to Lynn Valley the fellow there told us to take in through to the back of the mill and dump it through a hole in the floor into the creek where he says he throws tons of it every year so we did saving one bag to fool Dad. with. We got done just about six after a very enjoyable outing. Frank stayed home all day and he & Dad. got all the oats over in the big barn sacked up and half of them hauled over to the old barn. Aunty was over all day and just before we got back Dad. drove her down and brought Enah and the baby back. Frank told me that Val Leany had quite a patch of ice cleared to cut ice and there wree a few skating on it when he went down so to-night I went down, there wasn't a soul there but I went across the pons and there and thought oit was prettu good so went up and got Marj. it took a lot of coaxing to get her to come alone but she did and we had a dandy skate for about an hour. E=We saw a couple on snow shopes ip the pond and we judged from their voices it was George Henderson & Neill Hussey. When we got back to the Bagleys we found Nell. Smith & Bill Marchington, he is supposed to be sick so came up ere to recover. Raw wind but much milder.

Wednesday February 16th