got back with our load. Frank and I went down this after noon to get my load, and as I wanted to get some feed at Billy Langs and as we were delayed a little by helping Marjorie Gamble at the coal office try to figure out a Cross-word puzzle, and Frank forgetting his coat and having to go back to the coal shed for it from Aunty's it was fairly late when we got home. We put on a few chunks of the old horse chestnut tree at Aunty's and I brought some of them over here. Down at Aunty's they are very tired and very troubled. Poor Lila is sinking rapidly. She was delirious last night. To-day she was resting comfortably and slept most of the time. Her temperature quickl fluctuates quickly & sharply rising to 102° and then dropping to below normal. Dr Cook says this is due to the disease attacking new spots. He says the tuberculosis is now all through her system. He asked Aunty Alice if they would like another doctor. She said she was satisfied with him but asked him if he would like another. He said "I think the poor child has suffered enough at the hands of doctors." It is true and we can't help thinking "If only she had never gone to that Hospital." It is hard not to think bitterly of an institution which professes to do so much for the relief of suffering humanity and support its plea for public support by giving free treatment to ailing paupers and all sorts of human scum and yet will take the finest type of girls like Lila in the best of health and with overwork and lack of proper food allow them to become the victims of a preventable disease then operate on them for an experiment and finally send them home to die. It's hard to believe but it's true. Quint has been in Vittoria for a few days this week as old Mr. Farrar is very sick, and Miss Farrar is up there Mrs. Dunkin came up from Toronto to see her father and while she was here Top. died. Dick has been close at home though so has been a great help to Aunty & Aunty Alice.

Saturday February 14th

This has been another beautiful day, bright & very mild I went over to Willie Shand's this morning and got my saws which he had doctored up for me. I tried the crosscut out on the way back on one of my pines. I got it notched and sawed pretty well through before dinner but it was leaning a little away from where I wanted to fall it so I left it till after dinner and then wedged it over with an old axe head. I then went over and swept the school house. Harry B. went with me and amused himself by eating paints or crayons.