a big load and left it on the waggon. Ham Thompson was down this morning to see if I was going to Burford to-morrow. We decided to go on the nine o'clock car. Frank went down town to-night to stay {words illegible} as he is going to leave for Toronto in the morning {words illegible} in the Sheep Breeder's meeting. Beautiful day very mild.

Tuesday February 4th

Ham, Frank and I all went up on the nine o'clock car this morning. We left Frank at {illegible} and the went to Hamilton by radial. Ham and I {words illegible} for Burford at 10.45. There was quite a {illegible} on the train bound for the Lloyd Jones sale and they all got off at Mt. Vernon so we {piled off too?} and had to walk over a mile to the farm. We had dinner at Lloyd Jone's as soon as we got there. Ham {words illegible} in with a Mr. Gould from the American Sheep {Association?} and after dinner we had a look at all the prize winners and cups before we went out. He had quite a {words illegible} of them. The sale lasted all the after noon as the bidding was rather slow. There were few buyers and they didn't run things up all high. Our old ewes brought $40.00 apiece and the others ${34.00?} and $39.

Six of them were sold in pairs ut the little one was sold singly and brought $20.00 so he didn't kame a very big profit on any of our stuff but one of Ham's ram lambs brought $48.00. He sold all his at $50.00 apiece but cam eoff the {words illegible} didn't bring that much and the pther ram just brought that. We hung around and nearly froze all the after noon and about four o'clock Mr. Gould struck out for Mt. vernon to catch the train for Brantford, but we wanted to get our checks if piosssible from lloyf=d joness before w eleft {words illegible} as he promisted to get us to Brantford in time to catch the six o'clock car, so we ewaited. The sale lasted right up to the minute we had to leave so we couldn't get our money and he sent us in to Brantford in his Ford