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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1916
Theobald Toby Barrett 1916 Diary 9.pdf
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watching a game between Bunyian and Fred Tuck. Bunyian was pretty well jagged and was shooting with the butt end of his cue. Frank and I stopped in at Aunty's on our way home and found Dick there for the night, he looks pretty rotten yet but says he feels all right. I tried on a couple of shirts which Aunty Alice made for Dad. but which were too small and which just about fit me so I inherited them. They're dandys too. I sat up till three o'clock after I got home and finished reading "Mr. {illegible} of {illegible}" It was pretty good but I thing I caught a bad cold over it. This I think has been the coldest day yet this winter frosty as well as windy.
Tuesday January 18th
Frabk has been at school all day. I have just done chires and noot tried to anything else, in fact the choires took up most of my time. Dad. went dwn town this moirning and stayed at Aunty's to dinner and most of the after noon, he doesn't feel any worse for it what he suffers most from now in a peculiar, very disagreeable, undescribable and he sau=ys most rotten taste and sometines smell that he gets on some of his food and most
