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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1926-1927
Theobald (Toby) Barrett Diary, 1926-1927-86.pdf
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| − | We got up about 4.30 this morning had breakfast & then trudged through hard frozen snow to catch the six o'clock train. Dorrie went to the station with us and had Mr. | + | We got up about 4.30 this morning had breakfast & then trudged through hard frozen snow to catch the six o'clock train. Dorrie went to the station with us and had Mr. Keefer call and take our trunks down on the mail barrow. It might have been a January morning by the feel of it. We have spent a long and tiresome day on the train, saw the sun rise and set from the car windows. The woods with the snow on them though were lovely. |
The snow disappeared y the time we got to Lindsay, and it was quite in Toronto where we had lunch. Marj. & the kids didn't leave the statuon there but i walked a little way up St. amnd got. arecord for geirge and hi a tie for | The snow disappeared y the time we got to Lindsay, and it was quite in Toronto where we had lunch. Marj. & the kids didn't leave the statuon there but i walked a little way up St. amnd got. arecord for geirge and hi a tie for | ||
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much but sit around the house and read. Late this after noon Harry B. and I went for a little walk as Dorrie found me a pair of overshoes that fit me and we got a pair of rubbers for Harry B at the store. We went up to Laking's saw mill and saw them making shingles. I also gathered up some baskets and took them down to the station and expressed them to Dover. Seems milder to-night but still snowing.
Tuesday October 19th
We got up about 4.30 this morning had breakfast & then trudged through hard frozen snow to catch the six o'clock train. Dorrie went to the station with us and had Mr. Keefer call and take our trunks down on the mail barrow. It might have been a January morning by the feel of it. We have spent a long and tiresome day on the train, saw the sun rise and set from the car windows. The woods with the snow on them though were lovely.
The snow disappeared y the time we got to Lindsay, and it was quite in Toronto where we had lunch. Marj. & the kids didn't leave the statuon there but i walked a little way up St. amnd got. arecord for geirge and hi a tie for
