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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1914

Toby Barrett 1914 Diary 5.pdf

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home till morning" for him, he said it was pretty poor playing and sounded to him just like "To hell with Bill Langs. To hell with Bill Young. When we went ober to Billys he took us in and fed us up properly I had got pretty well filled up before though so didn't partake of much We were there quite awhile. and on coming out trailed downstreet in any old order playing "Marching through Georgia" and such airs as. we didn't need music for. I know I was coming down Main Street beside Carl who banged rhe drum, with Harry Moon ahead of me and leads out other parts both ahead and behind. It was getting late but at the door of the Dominion we found GeorgeHammmond ans what we had heard had beated Aiken by 109 viotes so we went inside and kicked up a little row in honor of him Gundry who was last in the list of township councillors was also there. Hammond bought cigars but I'd had enough alone. We played The "Campbells are comin" in which the horn drone on one note without music. Harry struck the note but neither of us remember the name of it, I got {Eb?} which sounded about like Harrys and played it all through finding out afterwards that it wa the wrong note the right being Ab. But Enah said it would not be a discord although I guess it wouldn't have mattered mych if it was and mabe would have been beteer to give the desired bagpipe efect. We then broke up, and went home I picked Dick up or at least he fell in with me as he had been spending the evening at the Dyer's and we got home about twelve. Every body was in bed of course but Dad. was not asleep as he was brooding over the

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