alarm clock. I wanted to get out anyway before the hens did as I doscoveed yesterday that the old duck was laying in the chicken yard. and so I wanted to leave the yard open for her to get in during the night but as I don't let the same pen out two dau=ys in succession I had to get up before the hens to shut it up. I didn;t think to shut them in the house but I will here after I ope. Dick brought home word last night that Mrs. Hobbes wanted two settings of eggs so I went over to ask Jack Martin if he wanted them especially but he wasn't home and Chris was down town so I sent them down. Vyse was over for a while, after breakfast Huby got the brush heap in the orchard burned at last. I threw the brush out of the pig yard and helped him carry it over to the fire. After we burned it we started to clean up the wheat. We got it all cleaned up aboout half past four this afternoon. There was only about forty bushels of it cleared. we put a coarse seive in the bottom so got a lot of stuff in he drip box nearly wenough to fill up the chicken feed bin. When we got it done Huby and I tore down and piled up handy to where we could get them with the waggon what few rails were left from the old barn yard fence Sunny and but raw wind all day. Sam Law was on his foeld to-day but Tom Abbot says it is very mucky. Poor Tiddums is very miserable, the whooping cough is back again.