to set at all before the next is put on it will cause a crack in the wall and will leak. We just nicely got started to work when it started to rain and the harder we worked the harder it rained, but we stayed with it and finished a little after twelve. Ot had his boy with him so there were four of us to mix grout and Ot to tramp it in and put in the rein for cements while Dad & the boys were running

in a batch Frank and I were carrying gravel & cement for the next one. We just mixed one bag at a time and it took 16 bags. We had the drivehouse door for. amixing board and as it sagge din the center it made a good one. We all got soaked of course but Dad & I didn't have coats on so we got an exra soaking and we had to work like niggers to keep from getting very cold: so to-night I feel pretty stiff. We went in the house, built a fire an d change dour cothes as soon as we finished and Frank got dinner as Enah was down judging at the fkower show. It stopped raining for awhile about the middle of the after oon and I cam ehime about four. Marjj. has had a busy day with Harry B & the baby sick, but the baby is better to-night. I should have gone down to the show to look after