P.S. Mathew's came over this after noon and got Harry Ansley's cow and Mr. Bagley was over this morning and got a setting hen.

a complete surprise. They caught Mr. Shand out in the barn cleaning up seed, he hadn't heard the first few rigs come in and he told Dad. that he had no idea there was going to be a funeral there to-day, that if they had given him any idea of it, he would have tried to have the corpse ready. Flossie said she had an awful time yesterday keeping enough stuff in the house for the occasion as they were supposed to have been all moved down town to-day. There were about sixty people there and they had a very nice time. Dad. had to make an after dinner speech and to play a game of six handed pedro but otherwise spoke as if he enjoyed himself. Frank and I did up the cow stables when we got through reading the paper which wasn't very early and then Frank went over to ask Ben Ivey about some rails, he said he would be right back but stayed to help Ben load his hog pen on to his dray. I went up to Ham Thompsons to ask him about getting spray material as I had a card to day from the Norfolk Fruit Grower's Ass'n saying their warehouse in Simcoe would only be open on certain days. Ham wasnt home having gone down to Bruce Ball's sale. Frank went down town to-night. The wind got around a little more to the west to-day but it has been cloudy and raw and is snowing quite hard to-night.