some candy this after noon to send to a friend of Essie's George Hunter who is in the trenches, that took a good part of the after noon as we had to crack nuts for it, but we went for a short walk. I stayed to tea and we all went to church or churches. Mr. Tarney brought in ours and was going to speak at the recruiting meeting afterwards we didn't go but went home and washed dishes instead. Quint came home yesterday noon he had been in Buffalo and Detroit; no-one seems to know why he left the mill unless it is that he just got tired of it. He and Huby went to Simcoe this after noon to see Alex McCall and interview him on the subject of enlisting. I guess Quint will enlist all right as Huby is very anxious to have him. Dad. was going up to old Jona's this after noon but Jim Waddle came over and he didn't get. He went over to John Wess' about five o'clock. Dick stayed with Aunty to-night.

Monday March 20th

Dad. went up to Jona's first thing this morning and left Frank and me to do chores, we hooked up old Harry & Nellie to the bobsleighs and cleaned out the box stall into the sleighs and hauled it out to the old garden we had about two loads in it and the stable and it took us till noon. When Dad. got home he said Jonas was going to lose Nellie and the colt he was sure as they were in awful shape, they were both down and Nellie had batted herself all to pieces trying to get up, nothing wrong with them but starvation, right after dinner Blaikie came along with his brother-in-law, Jim Andrews from Tyrell, he has been out there the last few days & thought it was too cold to monkey with his stuff but to-day they had the bobsleighs and he loaded it all on them and took it out there where he will sort it and leave it till he wants it. He had a good big sleigh load but it wasn't very heavy. Dad. & Frank and I had quite an argument about Blaikie's two chests, he had a big red one in behind the chimney with rope handle on it and a little green one that he had his tools in and which has allways been open and stood in front of the window and near the head of the stairs. He told us it was the chest his father had brought from Scotland in 1830 and they both say he said it was the other one. By the time tney got their load on and got started it was after three o'clock so we just had time to put on about