had happened was that Bobbie had got frightened we suppose of Tim & young Charles Aikens who were playing up above in the loft, and backed out suddenly upsetting Dad. & his milk right back of Cnocfierna's heels and stepping on him as she went out. All that racket of course scared Cnocfierna and she surged back and broke her stancion and backed out right on top of poor Dad. I had been washing off their bag so the floor behind them was awfully mucky so that he was a terrible sight but fortunately not seriously hurt but pretty badly bruised. I stayed scared for a long time and when I saw Mr. Charles Aikens I told him to get off the place and stay off.

Saturday September 17th

It rained hard this morning so we didn't go to get a load of corn. It came out very hot after the rain and Dad. and I just did chores and odd jobs, one of which was to get the lambs in and trim them up. We took the team & waggon out to the corn field and got a lot of the stalks and picked up most of the piles of corn that were out there and brought them up here to feed. The bulls seemed to relish the stalks very much. Alan & Sam were up here most of the day tinkering at their seperator.

Sunday September 18th

We had quite an exciting time this morning by the woodshed chimney catching fire. I was getting ready for Sunday school when Marj came in and said the chimney smelt as if it was on fire but when she told the others they didn't pay any attention to her but in a few minutes Enah came in and called me in a very excited voice and I rushed out to find the woodshed black with smoke. I went upstairs and found every thing was all right up there. Enah put some salt on the fire and in a few minutes it died down and no damage was done. Marj. Tim and I went to Sunday school and Dad. & Enah drove down to church Dad. drove Aunty up to church, the first time she has been all summer but she was pretty tired afterwards. Marj.