Saturday December 5th

Marj. and I both got up early this morning and had breakfast at seven o'clock I did all the chores by lantern light and struck out for Lindsay's bridge about half past seven. The sun was just rising as I walked up the road and I have seldom seen a prettier sun-rise. The sun itself only appeared for a few minutes and then disappeared, a dull lustreless crimson globe, behind dense clouds, but the sky above this cloud mass was beautifully and delicately tinted and against this floated several slender graceful clouds long and yet not mere streaks. There was a fine sort of half mist & half drizzle at this time and it was certainly not a promising looking sunrise. I was back at the bridge for some little time before anyone else came but finally Tom Stone, his man and team came along. Tom had charge of the signal lanterns on the barricade and when he got them tended to we started in to fill along the bottom of the culvert. Pretty soon Art Quanbury came and said Tupper had commisioned him to boss the job and his idea was to use the teams and scrapers and scrape the earth to the top of the excavation and shovel it down, after a little argument between him and Tom we started on Arts scheme and worked till ten o'clock, by that

time it was raining so hard that we had to leave I stopped off and swept the school house on my way home. Old Jimmie Robb came along with the milk while we were back there and gave us a full account of the row between him and Sid McBride which is to culminate in a lawsuit next Tuesday. His story is that he bought two gallons of gasoline from Sid and when he got it home measured it at Charlie Dixon's suggestion and found it fell short half a gallon. Lambert was there and Dixon said that Sid. had served him the same trick. Robb {illegible} he said no more about it but that night or the next Sid & Jim came into Robb's store while he was alone and Sid accused him of telling the tale around the country. Robb denied it and Sid. called him a certain kind of a liar whereat Robb returned the compliment. With this Sid with a curse threatened to kill him and grabbed him by the throat and a lively tussle ensued. Robb says he would have had Sid down but for Jim who grabbed his leg and as he is short of wind owing to a cold he has had all fall, he couldn't down him.

Jim McBride at Sid's took the shells out of Robbs gun & orevented him from gertting his cone, finally Sid. left and the next morning Robb went to Kelly and the trial is Tuesday mirning. What Sid's version of the tale is I don't know, but although his temper is quick, I would