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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1913

Toby Barrett 1913 Diary 31.pdf

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to give it back as they had found the lost one. I think Dick bought it so as there wouldn't be enough to go round and led them to under stand he was buying it for another member of the club. We got the chores done up pretty early but didn't get any thing else much done.

Dad. went over to Bannister's to see their horse and says he thinks it will die. Roy came back with him and fooled around with Frank nearly all morning and at last went home with an Horatio Alger book after Frank had showed about half a dozen {"tame" illegible} Win and Lila went home soon after dinner.


This afternoon Dad drove Enah and Frank down town, Enah sold her butter and Frank got a new suit which he is highly delighted with. Dad arranged with Marshall to send our cream to the butter factory in April.The roads were a fright, frost nearly out in some places. I cut wood and cleaned out enough threshed blue grass to shut the barn doors. It rained this morning this after noon very high wind and colder not quite freezing to-night. Dick had to work tonight. Tiddums on the mend slept most of the day.

Sunday March 16th

Aunty said the boys went down to sunday school & church I helped Dad do up some of the chores and then left here about eleven for church. I was a little late of course so sat in the back with Dick & Fred Tuck. Quint came over to dinner with us and this afternoon he Dick & I went down town and sat around down at the Vigilant with Jim {Muth?} till six. Dick stayed down to tea at Huby's but I came home. Dad did up rthe chores. It froze last night and has been much colder to-day with a sharp wind. Freezing pretty hard to night. Snow flurries to day.

Monday March 17th

Dad. and I caught the two young gobblers tis morning and ut them up over the pig pen, where we hope to get them in a corpulent state, one for home consumption and the othe to convert into cash we started before dinner to move more alsike & blue grass threshing out of and this after noon got it all out of the driveway and pile din one corner of the empty {illegible} in the barn as high as was convenient to pich, rthere is still quite a pile in the shed.

Enah went down town to curch this afternoon, there is a chirch every afternoon this week now. Dick came hime with her. Tom. Abbot was in tis mrning to see Dad. about hismare who has distemper. It froze pretty stiff last night and then has been a rather sharp breeze to-day but sunny.

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