the side road with a gang to go and work on the road to-morrow for 35 cts per hour. They are cleaning out the ditch getting ready to scrape the road & grade it. I didn't do much but chores all day Mr. Zealand has been drunk all day so we didnt invite him in to dinner. He had Skinner Manning out in the shop with him all fore noon and they were cleaning up and throwing things around at a great rate. Marj. said he came back (he & Skinner went off down street about one o'clock) about five and was in a very good humor and said he would like to have tea with us so Marj. told him she would be glad to have him and said she was expecting Essie over where at he said he wouldn't stay but went and had another drink of cider and came out and said he was going down to the hotel to have the first meal he had had to-day, he then got mad and slammed the door without listening to Marj's. protestations. Essie came over to tea and I went over for a few minutes to Uncle Ward's to see about getting some eggs to set as I tested mine out this afternoon and they were no good. Lovely day

Saturday March 19th

I went in to Jack Martin's this morning and told him about the bad luck I had with the eggs so he told me to get a couple of roosters from him to-night. I went down to Uncle Ward's and got three settings from him. Marj. went down with me and when we came back we saw Mr. Zealand digging around his trees aparently sober and in a good humor. He had dinner with us and seemed all right, but by tea time he was pretty full again. He went off with his club bag after tea and said he might go back to Hamilton but he didn't. I just did chores this after noon and went over to Jack's to get my roosters but he hadn't had time to pick them out. Frank has been working on the road all day and wasn't home when I left to-night. I had to go home as the boys were coming over. Beautiful day, quite hot.

Sunday March 20th

I went over to the farm in good time this morning and when I got back found Mr. Zealand busily engaged in the garden putting Nitrate of Soda around his trees & roses. He told me that there was a preacher down town last night and he had been giving him some advice about speaking directly to the boys so I judged they had some fun with him. Marj. and I went down to Sunday school and I told him we wouldn't be back to dinner. We stayed at Aunty's for dinner and when Aunty came down from Huby's she said Aunty Maude was very much worse and wanted Dad. to come down and stay with Huby. Laurel Misner's husband drove to Turkey Point to get Quint this after noon. I did all the chores up over here and then went down to get Marj. I stopped in to change my clothes and Mr. Zealand was very busy putting mantels on the gas jets and trying to fix the pump