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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1914

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tree in the orchard. It make a beauty. and is good and solid. Huby dug quite a bit at his ditch and Dad. took the storm windows off. Whit Dixon came in this after noon and got another pig. Two other fellows were in they wanted Dad. to go down to Henderson's to-night and have a look at their big black Percheron stallion. They want to travel him down this way. Dad. got notice of a school board meeting to-night so he went down. I got chores done up early hoping to take Osprey out for a run before dark but it began to rain just before dark. It has been very hot all day and felt like rain. I don't think it rained very hard nor long Winnie & Jonny Miller were over for awhile before tea.

Thursday May 7th

We put the halter on Pommer's for the first time this morning. and tied him in Joes stall for awhile, he was pretty crazy at first but soon quieted down when he found there was no use fighting. We put the harness on Osprey and I took him down to the corner and back. He felt pretty gay and looked fine. Dad. and Huby cleaned up a lot more of the old barn floor. This after noon we hooked up Osprey and Harry to the waggon and the whole three of us went down to Billy Cunningham's to get Dave's cart. We found him and Billy Loan bulding a house. He said he had brought the cart up to Bobbie McMullins tweo or three weeks ago so Huby is going to bring it over in the morning We got a couple of nice little silver beech trees in Hammond's back on our eay home and Huby set one out on the lawn. He wants to put the othe rin the gully. We saw Tom Abbot and he have us our cream check. It wasn;t very high this month as butter has fone down. We only got a little over 19 dollars.

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