and bars at the corner of the drive house. Dad. went back and ploughed for awhile he said it went quite a bit better at the bottom of the hill & in the low spots but up on top was as dry as ever I went down to band practice to-night.

Tuesday August 30th

The bandit hogs, the twin marauders who being spoiled children and allowed to follow their own sweet will ever since they nestled in their fond mother's arms (as it were) must now suffer for their sins by forfeiting their freedom. They have led a life of wickedness first robbing and plundering our crops which were near at hand, pillaging the oat field back of the barn and the strawberries and corn in the garden but not content with confining their operations to the limits of this place where they are tolerated, they were finally seized with the wanderlust and like pirates have been making daily forays into Jack Martin's clover and corn and at last into Billy Mill's garden where they ruthlessly destroyed the kids pop-corn. So a warrant for their imprisonment was carried out yesterday morning and last night dad. shut them in their pen and thought he had them solid, but they are hardened criminalsd and did not hesitate to add to the crime of jail breaking to the long list of their evil deeds and to-night Billy Mills chased them home and in an indignant tone recounted their guilty charges so dad. shut them up again this time right in the pen but this morning, they were free once more so once more they were shut up with Gladys, and the door barred and nailed and it seems at last as if they were safely confined, but its hard to say.

Dad went