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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1916
Theobald Toby Barrett 1916 Diary 98.pdf
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| − | This morning Dad. & I did up the chores and then started to put a barbed wire on the top of the fence along the lane comin in from the road, we merely started there as we want to if we can stretch one all along every fence where the horses run as they will reach over and bend the top of the woven wire down. We got quite a long strand of wire from the fence down the road and tried to stretch it with the claw hammer but that didn't work well so I went over to John Wess' to borrow his wire stretchers. He was down fixing the well when I got there and when he came up it was beginning to rain and looked like a bad storm coming up. It was then just about noon so I stayed to dinner and there was a heavy rain for a while at noon After dinner Lloyd Crysler came over and wanted me to go fishing so we took a walk down to Frank Ryerse's where we found Wilbur and Lorne Jackson. We stopped in for {From?} Walker on our way down as Wilbur said he promised to go the next rainy day, but From said he had to take his wife to town so Lloyd told him he would never ask him again. We got Lorne's nets but as Wilbur didnt want to get in the creek with the drag net we just used the gil net and strung it accross the creek and then I rowed Wilbur & Lorne up the creek a way and they | + | This morning Dad. & I did up the chores and then started to put a barbed wire on the top of the fence along the lane comin in from the road, we merely started there as we want to if we can stretch one all along every fence where the horses run as they will reach over and bend the top of the woven wire down. We got quite a long strand of wire from the fence down the road and tried to stretch it with the claw hammer but that didn't work well so I went over to John Wess' to borrow his wire stretchers. He was down fixing the well when I got there and when he came up it was beginning to rain and looked like a bad storm coming up. It was then just about noon so I stayed to dinner and there was a heavy rain for a while at noon After dinner Lloyd Crysler came over and wanted me to go fishing so we took a walk down to Frank Ryerse's where we found Wilbur and Lorne Jackson. We stopped in for {From?} Walker on our way down as Wilbur said he promised to go the next rainy day, but {From?} said he had to take his wife to town so Lloyd told him he would never ask him again. We got Lorne's nets but as Wilbur didnt want to get in the creek with the drag net we just used the gil net and strung it accross the creek and then I rowed Wilbur & Lorne up the creek a way and they whippet it down but we didn't get a fish Tige got in it once she and Lloyd's dog swam across about forty times. We fooled around for a little while before we came home and it was long after five when I came through John Wess' place to our gully Dad. came back after the cows he thought some thing must have happened to me he said but couldn't have done any thing on account of the wet and he had a very bad head-ache. Aunty was over to dinner and he drove her home this after noon, she is going to Brantford in the morning to pay a little visit to Miss & Mrs Battersby. Frank didn't get a whole day in to-day on account of the rain but he only lost an hour or two I think they were still planting strawberries. He is having a great time over there with Joe Green. |
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We chored around a little this morning | We chored around a little this morning | ||
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Thursday June 15th
This morning Dad. & I did up the chores and then started to put a barbed wire on the top of the fence along the lane comin in from the road, we merely started there as we want to if we can stretch one all along every fence where the horses run as they will reach over and bend the top of the woven wire down. We got quite a long strand of wire from the fence down the road and tried to stretch it with the claw hammer but that didn't work well so I went over to John Wess' to borrow his wire stretchers. He was down fixing the well when I got there and when he came up it was beginning to rain and looked like a bad storm coming up. It was then just about noon so I stayed to dinner and there was a heavy rain for a while at noon After dinner Lloyd Crysler came over and wanted me to go fishing so we took a walk down to Frank Ryerse's where we found Wilbur and Lorne Jackson. We stopped in for {From?} Walker on our way down as Wilbur said he promised to go the next rainy day, but {From?} said he had to take his wife to town so Lloyd told him he would never ask him again. We got Lorne's nets but as Wilbur didnt want to get in the creek with the drag net we just used the gil net and strung it accross the creek and then I rowed Wilbur & Lorne up the creek a way and they whippet it down but we didn't get a fish Tige got in it once she and Lloyd's dog swam across about forty times. We fooled around for a little while before we came home and it was long after five when I came through John Wess' place to our gully Dad. came back after the cows he thought some thing must have happened to me he said but couldn't have done any thing on account of the wet and he had a very bad head-ache. Aunty was over to dinner and he drove her home this after noon, she is going to Brantford in the morning to pay a little visit to Miss & Mrs Battersby. Frank didn't get a whole day in to-day on account of the rain but he only lost an hour or two I think they were still planting strawberries. He is having a great time over there with Joe Green.
Thursday Friday June 16th Friday
We chored around a little this morning
