dozen eggs down and got 45 cts for them at Sam's. I also took a letter down to post to Davie and had to go to the train with it {some?} little girls piled in the cutter on their way home from school so I told them if they would hold Queen for me while I went to the train I would drive them home, and when I came to fill my contract I discovered they lived way over Brant Hill. Queen got cutting up on the way back and I had to hold her in tightly and my fingers nearly perised. I stopped in at the farm on my way down and found Dad. feeling a little better. Enah asked me to get some oatmeal so I stopped on my way home and she lent me a pair of knitted mitts which I put on under my leather ones and kept my hands quite comfortable. I called in at Aunty's and found Win with Lila. Aunty Alice was at Mrs. McLaughlin's playing bridge and Aunty was at an Auxillary meeting in the Sunday school. I suppose the enjoyment each of them was getting made up for discomforts but it must have been a bitterly cold walk over the hill and surley the old schoolroom would be as cold as a barn to-day. Lila has been having a temperature every day lately but she said it was too cold to-day to raise a fever although she could have enjoyed. The poor kid, she certainly puts on a brave face. Win. had a clipping from the Family Herald & Weekly Star which someone had sent to Huby with an advertisement under the "Unclaimed Moneys" section advising any male issue of Mary Dick wife of William Barrett of Ireland 1760 and of Hugh Massy Barrett who is believed to have lived in Montreal in 1846 to communicate with some party, I forget the name, in England. As there can be no doubt that the Hugh Massey Barrett is our great grand-father, he having lived in Sorel about that time, we are all quite excited about it and Huby and Dad. will have to write. I don't know who Mary Dick was and sincerely hope no male issue of hers is in existence but there was someone of that name connected with the family and Aunty says Fa. always thought that it was a lawyer of that name that cabbaged all the money of the family. If so, here's hoping he took good care of it. Marj. & I sat around and stoked the fires till midnight but we cant get the house really warm. Marj. set bread last night but it didnt rise an inch all day, she put it in the oven to-night but the oven was too cold to bake it as I put an overdose of salt it I am afraid it won't make very good eating.