over to the farm so he thought while Dad. was away was the time to do it, and there is a possibility of them renting the house down there. We left Tim up town to go around and get the phonograph ready while we went and got a jag of coal and then came around and got Tim & the machine. We unloade the coal and I filled a couple of bags to take home. We then put the John Wess stock rack on the box experiencing the same difficulty in finding out the combinations as we did with the box but finally got it all right. We then had considerable trouble in persuading Gladys III to walk the gang plank from the barn door to the sleigh although we had it covered with straw and after a great deal of manoeuvering we did get her in and had no more trouble with her. It was a brute of an afternoon with a south west blizzard. It was nearly dark when I got home. To-night the wind raged and howled so that it felt as if it would lift the house.

Sunday January 24th