Sunday June 29th

We got up fairly early this morning and dDad drove Aunty up to the cemetery with some flowe=wers before Sunday School. None of us went down to curch except Frank, Hubert & Edith Lawrie came over with Aunty after chirch for the afternoon. I left at half past one as this was decoration day for the odd fellows - and the band furnisheds them with music for them. We had to march from the Dominion Hotel to the School house p amnd as it was the frst march for me I didn't enjoy it much, what made it triply hard for me, I had no music harp for my horn so had to hold the music with half of one hand, play with half the other and hold the horn with half of each so I couldn't do any thing properly. Then I got out of step about half a dozen times in every block and every suggested hobbles or some other contrivance to keep my length of step at about a foot & a half in staed of three feet. We rode up to the back from the cemetery on Val. Lany's dray with Johnne Walker\s team. We played a few old hymns up there and marcjed back from the school house to Harry Graham's store to "Auld Lang Syne". There is a great change for the better in the appearance of the cemeterey