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 reinforcements 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 a mixing board and as it sagged in 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 extra 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 and changed our clothes as soon as we finished and Frank got dinner as Enah was down judging at the flower show. It stopped raining for awhile about the middle of the after noon and I came home about four. Marj. 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 my stuff to-night but as it was raining about seven o'clock and was so dark & muddy and I felt so tough I didn't go, but we all went to bed as soon as possible

Wednesday September 16th