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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1919

Theobald Toby Barrett 1919 Diary 47.pdf

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which was more than we could stand, but there was another roan one about seven months old which he only asked $120.00 for. We didn't like him quite so well and his mother didn't give a very big milk record but as all of his - Cockshutt's - stock is of such pure English breeding having come from the Rothschild estate and been line bred for generations, we thought he might make a great impression on our stock and be a good foundation to build up on. However we didn't buy him but thought we would ask Dad. about it and let him know later. We got home at two o'clock by our time. The time of the country is in a beautiful mix up now. The house {illegible} didn't the "Daylight Saving" law because the farmer's made such a howl about it last year, but the railways all adopted new time on the first of April claiming that as they had it on the other side it would cause no end of confusion and probably accidents at the border if they didn't have the same time as the American roads. The consequence is a muddle and no-one is any better of and most people are madder than ever at the farmer's and in this particular case I
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which was more than we could stand, but there was another roan one about seven months old which he only asked $120.00 for. We didn't like him quite so well and his mother didn't give a very big milk record but as all of his - Cockshutt's - stock is of such pure English breeding having come from the Rothschild estate and been line bred for generations, we thought he might make a great impression on our stock and be a good foundation to build up on. However we didn't buy him but thought we would ask Dad. about it and let him know later. We got home at two o'clock by our time. The time of the country is in a beautiful mix up now. The house {illegible} didn't the "Daylight Saving" law because the farmer's made such a howl about it last year, but the railways all adopted new time on the first of April claiming that as they had it on the other side it would cause no end of confusion and probably accidents at the border if they didn't have the same time as the American roads. The consequence is a muddle and no-one is any better of and most people are madder than ever at the farmer's and in this particular case I don't think any one can blame them.When we got up to Aunty's we found Roy there he had come on the car before we did. Old Phelix was here putting the pump he mad efor the well at the windmill in at the house well as the old chaimn there is just about rusted out. It looks queer there in place of the old bucket and chain well and reminds me of one of these walkingsticlks we find in the woods {pencil sketch of a walking stick}, Guy Tuple came after Dad. soon after we got home so we helped Phelix while Dad. wet over there. I went down town to-night and went with Marj. & Miss Martin to the Presbyterian show in the hall. It wasa buch of misdle aged women from Simcoe putting on "The Suffragette Convention " and I think was the porest excuse for an entertainment that it has ever been my misfortune to attend. Mild, xcloudy.
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which was more than we could stand, but there was another roan one about seven months old which he only asked $120.00 for. We didn't like him quite so well and his mother didn't give a very big milk record but as all of his - Cockshutt's - stock is of such pure English breeding having come from the Rothschild estate and been line bred for generations, we thought he might make a great impression on our stock and be a good foundation to build up on. However we didn't buy him but thought we would ask Dad. about it and let him know later. We got home at two o'clock by our time. The time of the country is in a beautiful mix up now. The house {illegible} didn't the "Daylight Saving" law because the farmer's made such a howl about it last year, but the railways all adopted new time on the first of April claiming that as they had it on the other side it would cause no end of confusion and probably accidents at the border if they didn't have the same time as the American roads. The consequence is a muddle and no-one is any better of and most people are madder than ever at the farmer's and in this particular case I don't think any one can blame them.When we got up to Aunty's we found Roy there he had come on the car before we did. Old Phelix was here putting the pump he mad efor the well at the windmill in at the house well as the old chaimn there is just about rusted out. It looks queer there in place of the old bucket and chain well and reminds me of one of these walkingsticlks we find in the woods {pencil sketch of a walking stick}, Guy Tuple came after Dad. soon after we got home so we helped Phelix while Dad. wet over there. I went down town to-night and went with Marj. & Miss Martin to the Presbyterian show in the hall. It wasa buch of misdle aged women from Simcoe putting on "The Suffragette Convention " and I think was the porest excuse for an entertainment that it has ever been my misfortune to attend. Mild, xcloudy.

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