us about. I went to his store and he went with me to the girls home. We saw her, her mother and her step-father, and after a great deal of jabbering in Armenian she agreed to come down and try it for a week and said she would meet us at 11.30 at Mr. Carter's store. I got my hair cut and sat in the Battersby House reading the paper till the appointed time and then went down to the store. There was no sign of the girl and we waited for quite awhile before she showed up and I was beginning to think she had changed her mind but finally she and her father came along. We talked to them for awhile there trying to persuade him to hire out for the summer to Shands, but from what we could gather, he doesn't want to work on a farm through the summer as he thinks he can get work in town. He can't speak English but seems to understand it a little. We came back to Dover on the one o'clock car and Aunty Alice gave me a lunch. Zedwi as she pronounces her name said she had had her dinner. It was getting on for two when we got out here and Azadouhy Sarkisian as she spells her name got more homesick the farther out we got. She thought we were miles & miles away from Simcoe although I told her that we were going nearer to it after we left Dover. I gave Queen time enough to eat and then went back to the farm and Frank & I took Joe & Queen and the hay rack and went down to Crosbie's after my stuff. We got it all loaded on to the rack and hitched the roller behind but found it was too much of a load for the hill. Some fellow hauled it up the hill in the lane for us and we left the Roller in front of Billy Watson's rather than try {Name} Lambert's hill. We got home with the rest of the stuff but had to unload some of the wood in the lane here as one wheel got in a rut. Frank took the team home and took the four sections of harrows that I bought over there and brought the three sections out here as that will be all I will want to haul with Belle & Queen. It was pitiful to-night to see poor little Azadouhy as she was so homesick she couldn't eat any tea and couldn't keep the tears back She wrote a letter to her mother this after noon and told her she would come home on Saturday, so I am afraid she will never stay with us, although we think we would like her very much, she seems very bright and quick to learn. Still very cold wind but {f...}