going down during the noon hour so I started to grease the waggon. I got one wheel done when Dad. & Frank came home, so we put the team in and Frank got dinner for the three of us. He had to go down to Pickford's to cut wood this afternoon. Just as I left for town it began to snow and the wind got up from the north east. Dad. lent me his mackinaw and I was glad of it before I got home. I got my coal and by the time I started home it was snowing hard and a horrible day. The snow was very wet and I got soaked. It was four o'clock before I got home and I put the team in and left my load on the waggon, and did chores up early. Art Quanbury stopped me on my way down this morning and asked me if I had heard Mrs. Tom Stone was dead. I said I knew she wasn't as no one had been after Ina. but it seems the report got around town by some one listening in on the telephone and hearing crookedly the name of Mrs. Tom. Schram. The report that Bill Langs is dead was false although he is in a very critical condition. Excitement over the family fortune is on the increase. Dad had another letter from the firm of lawyers Arnold & Henry White. They had not received his second one when they wrote. They said they had communicated with the vicars of every parish in Tipperary in order to get birth certificates of Fa and his brothers & sisters but so far none of them had been able to help them. One had suggested that the records might be in Dublin, but if so they were probably destroyed when the Four courts was destroyed by the rebels. They asked if Dad. was sure that his father was born at the home of his mother's aunt Lady Dunboyne as they cannot reconcile it with the peerage, so Dad. Aunty & Aunty Alice copied out every thing they could find bearing on the subject and sent it to them. It may be impossible to find birth certificates or records of Fa's family unless Aunt Ella has them in the old Family Bible. I met a man just as I was leaving the farm at noon inquiring about Dad's sorel colt. I think it was Charlie {Eaid?}, I directed him to Dad. but do not know the outcome of his visit.

Saturday March 14th

This has been a miserable day. It rained most of the forenoon which on top of yesterdays snow made things very sloppy. Later in the afternoon it got colder and snowed more. I had intended taking eggs down and getting groceries but when it turned out such