Huby said that Larry Skey had telephone up to say that Quint had gone through his operation all right and was doing fine, the doctors said he was one of the finest specimens they had operated on for some time, and they do a lot of them. There are two fellows from Simcoe right next to Quint going through the same thing, the Government pays all their expenses. To-night Sid Marsh came after Dad. to go and see a mare of Carpenter's which foaled this after noon, but something had gone wrong with her and she died while Dad. was up there. Rainy & raw.

Sunday April 2nd

I got ready to go to Sunday school this morning but found I was late so didn't go but went down to church We all went to church even the baby and he was very good. Aunty came back with us and Dick was here when we got home. He slept too late to get to church. It was the first time we had seen him since last Sunday. He and I went down town again soon after dinner. Marj., Glad Law and I went for a walk around the hill. I came home to tea and went down again afterwards but didn't go to church. They didn't have any recruiting meeting to-night. Marj. & I went up with Glad Law to her place for a little while. I went down to Aunty's for a little while and came home early. Aunty expects to go to London to-morrow to attend the annual meeting of the W.A. Mr. Carson the canning factory manager died this morning he was only sick about a week. They had high jinks down town last night old Bill Caley got on a tear and wanted to lick every body in town and they had to put him in the lockup after he had smashed Bobby Leany's window Mrs. Caley told them to run him in and Jimmy helped, it took four or five of them to handle him. When I went out this morning I found another buck lamb belonging to Dad's yearling ewe. Very nice day.

Monday April 3rd

Old Splitear presented us with a pair of twins this morning. She is the first ewe to have twin lambs We spent a good part of the morning choring around I painted some more of the colony house this afternoon morning and finished it this afternoon. I didn't use all the paint so I put the rest on the