Tuesday November 24th

I spent the day puttering around doing chores, fooling with the chickens, and picking up cider apples. I had to make a couple of troughs for the chickens. I was surprised to find that there were still thirteen brown leghorns at large as I have twenty five shut up and I never could count more than thirty, that brings the total up to thirty eight and as I only had about forty three grow big enough to feather out well, I haven't lost as many since as I feared. The next problem is to catch them as I can't locate their roosting place. Ina was here washing all day and I drove her home to-night. Mr. & Mrs. Lampkin came over this evening. Still frozen up. Cold north west wind

Wednesday November 25th

I did up the chores this morning and then felt so tough that I came in and lay down. Harry B. told me a story that he made up and I went to sleep and stayed there until noon. I then got up had some dinner and felt better. It was cloudy and snowing this morning when I lay down but at noon the sun was shining and it was much milder. I wanted to go down and get some grit and feed for the chickens so Marj. said as it was such a lovely day she would like to go down to the Bagley's. We got away soon after two and I left them all at the Bagley's and then went down to Billy Lang's but his place was locked so I went on over home to get some wheat and there was no one around the house there so I went out to the field back of the orchard where Frank was cleaning out ditches and he said Dad. & Enah were both down town. I got my wheat and got home just at four. Mary & Nellie were out over by Willie Shand's fence so I had to put them in and as Mary ran up towards the house and then she & Nellie both ran down into the gully I had a lively time pursuing them. I finally got them all safely into the stable. I also fed the chickens and put some more coal on the fire so I was here for half an hour before I started back to town for the family. I stopped in at the farm on my way in and Dad. gave me forty five dollars of the money he got from Karl for the Rose heifer. I didn't know she had gone yet. He gave me some letters of Mr. Parks to read and said he got a cablegram to-day saying everything was satisfactory and he hoped to get before the judge in about a fortnight. He, Mr. Parks, has been saying all along that he hoped to wind it up the first of December but like the treasure that anchors the rainbow, it seems to be able to keep just beyond our grasp, but I suppose that merely adds to the interest and enhances the dime-novel effects