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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1918
Theobald Toby Barrett 1918 Diary 114.pdf
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| − | Dick and Frank went over to Quanbury's (Art's) to thrash this morning and were over there till nearly noon but didn't get their dinner out of it. Dad. and I bagged up 12 bags of oats for Tupper and tied up all the bags that were in the barn. This after noon Dick and I took Tupper's oats back to him but the 12 bags fell a bushel short of what we borrowed by weight. We got 12 or 13 bassword {?} over there to put over the mow in the old barn. When we got back we took all the filled bags that were in the barn over and dumpted them in the little box stall in the horse stable and took Art Quanbury's oats back which we borrowed at seeding time and I took Ivey's bags back to them so most of the after noon was spent in returning borrowed goods. Frank and Dad. | + | Dick and Frank went over to Quanbury's (Art's) to thrash this morning and were over there till nearly noon but didn't get their dinner out of it. Dad. and I bagged up 12 bags of oats for Tupper and tied up all the bags that were in the barn. This after noon Dick and I took Tupper's oats back to him but the 12 bags fell a bushel short of what we borrowed by weight. We got 12 or 13 bassword {?} over there to put over the mow in the old barn. When we got back we took all the filled bags that were in the barn over and dumpted them in the little box stall in the horse stable and took Art Quanbury's oats back which we borrowed at seeding time and I took Ivey's bags back to them so most of the after noon was spent in returning borrowed goods. Frank and Dad. did odd jobs as it was raining and cloudy all day rain to-night. |
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| + | Tuesday September 17<u>th</u> | ||
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| + | Frank and I took Frank's ducks down to the station this morning and he shipped them to Silverwood's in London. Dad. did some odd jobs around and I helped him clean out the calf pen when I got back. This after noon Dad. plowed on the wheat ground and Dick Frank and I went back to pull plantain in the clover seed but as there wasn't very much we went on over to John Wess's M<u>c</u>Bride's and visited with Cam. most of the after noon. To-night Dad. and Enah drove out to the Shand's to see the Virginia Nixon's Frank and I stenciled Dad's name on some bags. Dick went down town and just after Frank and I went to bed he came in, and spanked up awake with his whip and in formed us that a telegram had come for him from. Col. Dyer telling him he had a chance to go either to Siberia or Overseas with a tank battalion, he is tickled at the chance to go to Siberia. Sunny and fair but not hot to-day. | ||
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| + | Wednesday September 18<u>th</u> | ||
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| + | I went over to Lorne Myer's this morning to see | ||
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thinking I would be in time for church. I went but just got in before the sermon and I discovered that they had changed the time back from half past six to seven. I went over and spent th evening with Marj. She has changed her boarding house over to the Monteith's. It has been cloudy, and cold rained to-night.
Monday September 16th
Dick and Frank went over to Quanbury's (Art's) to thrash this morning and were over there till nearly noon but didn't get their dinner out of it. Dad. and I bagged up 12 bags of oats for Tupper and tied up all the bags that were in the barn. This after noon Dick and I took Tupper's oats back to him but the 12 bags fell a bushel short of what we borrowed by weight. We got 12 or 13 bassword {?} over there to put over the mow in the old barn. When we got back we took all the filled bags that were in the barn over and dumpted them in the little box stall in the horse stable and took Art Quanbury's oats back which we borrowed at seeding time and I took Ivey's bags back to them so most of the after noon was spent in returning borrowed goods. Frank and Dad. did odd jobs as it was raining and cloudy all day rain to-night.
Tuesday September 17th
Frank and I took Frank's ducks down to the station this morning and he shipped them to Silverwood's in London. Dad. did some odd jobs around and I helped him clean out the calf pen when I got back. This after noon Dad. plowed on the wheat ground and Dick Frank and I went back to pull plantain in the clover seed but as there wasn't very much we went on over to John Wess's McBride's and visited with Cam. most of the after noon. To-night Dad. and Enah drove out to the Shand's to see the Virginia Nixon's Frank and I stenciled Dad's name on some bags. Dick went down town and just after Frank and I went to bed he came in, and spanked up awake with his whip and in formed us that a telegram had come for him from. Col. Dyer telling him he had a chance to go either to Siberia or Overseas with a tank battalion, he is tickled at the chance to go to Siberia. Sunny and fair but not hot to-day.
Wednesday September 18th
I went over to Lorne Myer's this morning to see
