Friday May 11th

Dad. harrowed and rolled the garden back of the shop this morning and this after noon went over my acre of alfalfa plot with the springtooth but he and Frank have worked the rest of the day on the pea ground and think it will be fit to drill to-morrow if all's well. Aunty and Aunty Alice came over about eleven o'clock and stayed to dinner and tea. Aunty Alice brought us over a pound of mangle seed half a pound each of red and yellow variety's so this after noon I went over and borrowed Quanburys seed drill and Aunty Alice and I sowed them all on the garden back of the shop we just had enough seed to go over it except for two rows of potatoes next the orchard fence which I planted this morning. They were irish Cobblers Aunty and Aunty Alice brought Frank and me each a dandy pair of gloves. Win. came over to tea to-night, she won a two dollar prize on her composition on "The High School boy & the labor shortage" that wasn't just the title but it was the subject. To-night Enah and Aunty and Aunty Alice went over to Mrs. battersby's on their way home and Win and I went straight down town I wernt in to see marj. and as she had just got some trailing Arbutes from home we tool a bunch of it down to Aunty. Billy Laings came into the Bagley's before we left with some chicken feed and we had to entertain him till Mrs. Bagley came home and relieved us. Billy was in a very