with him to come out tomorrow afternoon and take her down town to do some shopping. She is feeling better. I didn't do much but chore around this after noon but I feel much better to-day. I walked over to Ollie Birdsel's sale about four o'clock as I wanted to bid on his hay but I met Dave Lampkin at the gate and he said everything was over, so I came right home again. I went late on purpose as I didn't want to stand around in the cold.

I met younfg Dove with a load of gravel and he told me that Tupper had fored him because his father had waylaid and hit Albert Gurney last ight beacause he the kid had complained to his father that Gurney had oasesed him on the road with a load and then thrown a stone at him because he kept ywlling at him. The Robinson's came along so Dive left and said he was a little lestthat Gurney ha dpassed him on the road but hadn;t thrown at him. Dove's poor old team's bones are just about poking through his skins at all points so it is time he quit. Cold and raw, trie dto snow a little.

Saturday December 19th