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Monday August 11th

Dad. went back to John Wess's first thing this morning to get Frank Faulkner's heifer which had got into John Wess's peas with the rest of the cattle thta had not come back with them so was taken by John Wess & put in with his.He was not at home but Blaikie was there so Dad. didn't get back very soon. I cut lawn off and on most of the day, I started to get the part across the the dirtch cut as it had grown iup pretty long. When Dad came back we started to dig a culvert across the front of the lane but after it was pretty welkl dug Dad. discovered that we couldn't make a satisfactory job of it with the material we had so we had to fill it in again.

Dad. shocke dup the poats over again all the after noon he said they were soaked right through and every shock had to be changed he didn't get finished of course. Frank rthinned out the carrots this afternoon and to-night. he & I went to the moving picture show which wasn't bad. Dad. drove Jean & Adelena & Lila down as rthe two former are going home on Thursday. Huby & Lila came over about noon. Huby had taken a day off to settle up some insurance business and Aunty wernt