and started scraping. It worked a little better this morning partly because we worked from the bottom and Tom could hold the scraper in easier going up hill. Charlie Butler came along and told us Marston didn't know "nothing" about building roads and if we had the old system of statute labour the roads would be better than they are now, he thought we should have left this job till June when it would be dry and then scrape the ditch into the road instead of in a pile at the side. I didn't say anything but I felt like telling him that I expected if this June was any thing like other Junes lately we would all be too busy to do road work, and that there would be a hot lot of use piling mucky clay or dry clay either on top of a gravel road, and pretend to think it would improve it. I hurried and got ready after dinner and went down to help get Marj. moved. Ina went home and we left Gay with Mrs. Lampkin's to save me driving down to the Donald's. Dad. was to have come down to help me carry Marj. downstairs and I was afraid he would be there before I was but he didn't get down so Mrs. Lawson and I carried her down by making a cross-hands chair. We then loaded her and Dorothy Mary into the