over last night to kill our ram but when he felt him he said it would be foolish as there wasn't much more than a good meal on him, so Whit looked at him this morning and said if we fed him awhile, he might be worth killing, so Dad. has him tied up in the stable now. To-night Dad. has gone down to see the folks. Frank has a bad cold and sore throat. He went over to Tupper's this morning to set some traps for a skunk. Cloudy, windy and a little rain to-day.

Sunday November 21st

Frank's cold was too bad to go out of the house to-day so Dad. & I drove down to church alone. Aunty came back with Dad. and I stayed down there to dinner and tea. This after noon I went visiting and also to-night after church. There was quite a commotion down town this after noon when Perce Ryerse's house, his new one caught on fire. I went up but they got it under control before it did any damage beyond smoking the house all up. It seems the kid set fire to a pile of rubbish down cellar. I went to church to-night and saw Dick to speak to for the first time to-day. Huby and Lila wemt down to Aunty's to-night and killed all his spring chickens, there were eight of them most of them cockrels. I went down about ten o'clock and got the old hen I lent him last summer to hatch them out. I don't know what the neighbors thought as she let out a series of the most unearthly squaks I ever hard as far as Allan's corner and then she wasn't so bad unless I {jabed?} her. Dick caught up to me at Uncle Wards. When we got home I put the old hen up to Frank's ear and pinched her and old Frank didn't know what was coming off. I had her in a bag and the next thing she did was to get loose in the kitchen and of course caused a terrible commotion while I was catching her. Very windy and blizzardy to-day.

Monday November 22nd

This mornong I went. over to Sam law's t thrash. It was still windy but. alittle more from tghe West so didn't blow right in the barn, we were there till about eleven o'clock. I was on the blower most of the time but the stack got too high to put all gthe straw on so we had to let it go to one side. We had dinner over there and I got baxck before they had dinne rhere. This after noon I did up the chirex and then put the little saddle on Ginger. I got on her in the drive house but she was