carraige. They had at first figured on going by motor but yesterday's rain put a stop to that plan. They had an awful trip especially after they struck the Port Rowan clay. They got back to town about nine o'clock to-night but Dad. didn't get home here till about 10.30 and was very stiff. Frank and I just did chores. It was a fine morning but rained most of the after noon and the mud is worse than ever Frank and I went down in the waggon at noon and got the bookcase that Mr. Bagley made for Marj. It was a dandy. This after noon Frank took the old waggon wheel out to John Evans to have a new tire put on. Mark was over and brough Enah a setting of eggs to put under her little black hen that is sitting out in the barn, but when I went to put them under I found she had one chicken hatched out.

Saturday April 23rd

It rained hard again during the night and has been very muddy and sloppy to-day. The barnyard is impassable. Dad. let Nellie out this morning and we shifted the calves arund put Bill in where she was and Martin's calf where Bill was after first castrating Bill & the white calf. Frank went down in the waggon to get some waste strips at the Widespread