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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1925

Theobald Toby Barrett 1925 Diary 77.pdf

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we were there. Tom was at the back of place fixing fence but came up and helped us piut on. a load of hay and agreed to haul it for Dad. after dinner. I started to roll down thew freeshly ploughed corn ground before dinner but didn;tget much done. This after noon Frank and I both weent back home, I drove Queen and we packed the wool and Dad. & I took it down to the station. Aunty & Aunty Alice came obver to the farm after dinner and rode back with us on thew wool sack. We had to stop at Uncle Watrd's and wire up the wafggon tongue as we noticed after we got started that the ennn dof it was broken. It looks as if the tractormhad gone ove rit. We saw Huby down at the satation and he was telling us the troublehe has had with the insoector's. They accuse dhim of being shor tof funds and Quint had to rais eover $100 dollars for him un very shport notice. He aparently didn't know that Quint borrowed it from Dad. Later they found they lkad made a mistake and tod Huby theu supposed he was agreeably surprised. Huby said not a t all as he knew his books were all right. Huby said it was a hell of a rest he got, he was lucky thewy didn;tarrest him and the expert who was hete reliebving left the books terribly mudled. He tinks they sent in. avery bad report. By the time we stipped up toewn for some groceries and again
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we were there. Tom was at the back of place fixing fence but came up and helped us piut on. a load of hay and agreed to haul it for Dad. after dinner. I started to roll down thew freshly ploughed corn ground before dinner but didn;tget much done. This after noon Frank and I both eent back home, I drove Queen and we packed the wool and Dad. & I took it down to the station. Aunty & Aunty Alice came obver to the farm after dinner and rode back with us on thew wool sack. We had to stop at Uncle Ward's and wire up the wafggon tongue as we noticed after we got started that the end of it was broken. It looks as if the tractormhad gone ove rit. We saw Huby down at the satation and he was telling us the troublehe has had with the insoector's. They accuse dhim of being shor tof funds and Quint had to raise over $100 dollars for him un very shport notice. He aparently didn't know that Quint borrowed it from Dad. Later they found they had made a mistake and tod Huby they supposed he was agreeably surprised. Huby said not a t all as he knew his books were all right. Huby said it was a hell of a rest he got, he was lucky they didn't arrest him and the expert who was hete reliebving left the books terribly mudled. He thinks they sent in avery bad report. By the time we stopped up town for some groceries and again

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we were there. Tom was at the back of place fixing fence but came up and helped us piut on. a load of hay and agreed to haul it for Dad. after dinner. I started to roll down thew freshly ploughed corn ground before dinner but didn;tget much done. This after noon Frank and I both eent back home, I drove Queen and we packed the wool and Dad. & I took it down to the station. Aunty & Aunty Alice came obver to the farm after dinner and rode back with us on thew wool sack. We had to stop at Uncle Ward's and wire up the wafggon tongue as we noticed after we got started that the end of it was broken. It looks as if the tractormhad gone ove rit. We saw Huby down at the satation and he was telling us the troublehe has had with the insoector's. They accuse dhim of being shor tof funds and Quint had to raise over $100 dollars for him un very shport notice. He aparently didn't know that Quint borrowed it from Dad. Later they found they had made a mistake and tod Huby they supposed he was agreeably surprised. Huby said not a t all as he knew his books were all right. Huby said it was a hell of a rest he got, he was lucky they didn't arrest him and the expert who was hete reliebving left the books terribly mudled. He thinks they sent in avery bad report. By the time we stopped up town for some groceries and again

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