a rivet came out of a section of the knife & it worked under another section and loosened all the rivets in the head of the knife. After dinner I went back to finish what I had left with the scythe, and worked & sweltered down there till three o'clock when I came up and got Queen ready for Marj. She took Harry B & Gay with her and left the baby with me I thought she would play in the sand pile by herself but she "howled dismal" if I moved ten feet away for her so I took her with me back to the little meadow and sat her on a pile of hay with her tin horn while I mowed the grass around the fences and then it looked so much like rain that I came up. Harvey Shand was mowing the school yard and he cut the little piece of timothy & marsh grass that I had had to leave for me which was very decent of him. I tried to put the baby to sleep and did get her off but she woke up as soon as I put her down and by this time it was so late that it was no use going out to cultivate so I weeded a little in the flower garden. It rained a short shower. Marj. & the kids got home after six some time after having terrible times. They put Queen in Clark Horn's barn when the shower came up Mrs. Horn unhooked her for Marj. and Clark hooked her up again. Marj. had to carry her berries around to sell them and when she got Queen hooked up again the flies were so bad she wouldn't stand worth a cent.

Saturday July 10th

It rained during the night and was too wet to work at the hay so I hooked to the rack and went down town after some chicken feed and coal oit an took my broken mower knife over home to fix I misjudged the time in some way and didn't get to town till noon and it was after one by the time I got back tothe farm. I just got there in time to miss a heavy shower. After I ha ddinne there Frank and I went o fix my mower knife bit broke the lower iron that the sections are riveted to so I had to take it over to Evan's to be welded. It was nearly six by the time I got home. Dad got a tyoppe writtne cip yof the judge's deision to day together with clippings from the London Times & the Daily Mail and leters from Mr. parks & WasboroughIt rained several little showers during the after noon and turned much colder with the wind in the north west.