more exercise, as she is beginning to show signs of foaling soon, her time is up on the 25th of this month. When I put her in I started to rake up the annual crop of sticks and leaves under the old willow tree but only got it about half done before dinner and after dinner it was pouring rain and rained all the after noon we just did chores. Art Quanbury came over for most of the after noon, his last ewe had a pair of twins last night but he can't make one of them suck so he came over and borrowed our sucking bottle to give it a feed and sent it back with Frank. It thundered a little this after noon.

Wednesday April 12th

We havent done any thing much to-day I took Belle put for another little ride for exercise. Aunty Alice was over to dinner but didn't stay long after. The last ewe No. 67 lambed to-day, we watched her all morning as she seemed to be straining and Dad examined her but couldn't find any thing, but when we went out after dinner we found a dead lamb with her, it had come in a wrong position and was dead when it came, it was a fine big one too. About an hour later she had another dandy big ram lamb and it was all right and she seems to be all right to and has an enormous bag. To-night I went down to churchm there were about a dozen or so there biut there were no lights when we forst got there I went up to see Marj. afterwards. I found her marking exam papers and syuffering with an awfully sore throaut. When I started for home it was pourin g tain so i camped all night at Aunty's. It has been avery nice day.

Thursday April 13th