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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1913
Toby Barrett 1913 Diary 145.pdf
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fence back into our gully, then we drove up along the woods into John Vyse's back feld, then into Robert John's foeld then into his gully from where she was drectly back and umped into Ivey's again, but we didn't have much trouble geting her from there into his gully again which I left hom with her, I rthen drobe Mully & Jim out of the fioeld as they hasd got in while we were chasing the heifer, and made a good fix on the fence, it was a little after twelkve when I got back to the house and Dad. was up with the team.
This afternoon we haule din two loads of corn fifty0two bushels. Jonas was in the seventh heaven odf delighted as he had Jim Law helping him husk. Jim husks about two bushels to Jonas' one and teases the life out of him at the same time. Frank went to look for hus trukeys after school to-night, he went to McQueen and Charlie told him there were eight there and had been there with theirs for amonth but Frank wasn't sure whether they were his or not and besides there should be eleven and Robert John said he saw that number last Tuesday. on the road. while Sid McBride was driving some other fencing for Robert John they stretched the piece between him and us so we got out of that job. We were reminded of this being Hallowe'en by hearing the school bell ringing to-night. Tiddums was playing in our bed woth some blocks this afternoon and crawled off the edge and gave himself a bad bump on his head and cut his eye quite badly, he was up on his hands and knees when Enah found him. Ciold and windy all day two short but blinding snow storms, one this morning, the worst one this aftrenoon.
