it and wrote a card to Frank Reid to say I wouldn't need to get any from him. It looks as though this fortune was gradually fading from our ken. They finished the argument on June 2nd but the judge has reserved his decision for a week or so which looks as if he was not at all convinced that Dad's claim was good. Wednesday 9th Frank came over this morning before I finished marking out the corn ground and started planting and we finished about four o'clock. Thursday 10th Marj. & I went down in the afternoon and signed the mortgage at Gibsons and Charlie Quanbury met us there with the money. I spent the rest of the after noon paying debts.

Thursday July 1st

I have been too. usy during the daytime and too dead tired at night to write and I can't remembe the daily happenings of the last three weeks. The weathe ris still cool and dry although we had a couple of good rains.I have cultivated my corn one way once but it is growing very slowly. We fot the garden in but nothing is up yet except some corn & potatoes.