her calf and she has been bawling for it all the afternoon. Dad. says he feels like a traitor as John. wemnt back this morning without her calf thinking it was safe up here and when he, Frank and Whit surrounded it. it was all alone. It was watching Whit htinking (so Dad says) that he (Dad) would protect it when he came up from behind & grabbed it. To=day's paper says that the war is commencing now in earnest and the Germans now occupy Brussels. They, the Canadian Government, hav eput a war tax on Sugar. Coffee. Tobacco & Cigars. so dad. thinks he will have to quit smoking. Huby left to-night for Toronto.

Saturday August 22nd

Dad. plowed all day