fixed the lawn mower all right and he was going to bring it back with him when he brought the can but he forgot. Frank went down town to night and got the mail. The rag man that interviewed Frank the other day came again and gave me 55 cents for all the stuff Frank had gathered up and borrowed my lead pencil which he has got, he gave a haf a cent back in cash for rags or a cent in trade he was very anxious to trade but the straight pails he had were worth 35 & 40 cts and Enah said she could get them for 15 down town. Nice enough day till it rained pretty hot.

Tuesday May 30th

It rained hard again during the night and every thing has been too wet outside to do any thing. Frank and Dad. went diwn this morning to get sime sand but there was a nice ridge of gravel washed up so they got. aoad of it and took it up to Aunty's to put on the walk and after dinner went down and got anothe rload, so didn't get any sand to put in the mudhole at all. Dad.nearly broke his neck this morning. He was up over the wood shed when he starte dto come down his foot slipped on the top step and