by the creek whether the fish bite or not. It has been swelteringly hot and yet a nice cool breeze. To-day is the proper day to plant corn around here but I doubt if there will be a grain dropped unless it is in some garden, there are dozen's who haven't a grain of any thing in the ground. Tom Abbot says he heard that Charlie Kinsular who has about four acres in is the only man between the Dog's Nest and the town line who has a seed in and their fields are all regular meadows and we're looking for more rain still.

Thursday May 25th

Dad. went back to see what the land looked like this morning and came back with the report that it was too wet to touch to-day, and a great big string of rock bass which were part of yesterday's catch. He had been over at John Wess's and said Cam. was cleaning a whole tub-full He, Dr. Bill, and Lloyd Crysler, were down at the creek all day and he said he thought they caught more fish than any one else on the creek and of course as usual it was lined from one end to the other. John Wess drove him and the lunch down as he can't walk very well on account of the veins in his legs, and had then come back and he & old Bill Wilkinson had put in the day target shooting. While Dad. was gone I worked a little trying to get some of the old cherry tree roots out of where I want to plant my hedge and when he came back we hooked Queen and Joe to the waggon and went up to McCoy's as Maria sent word down by her nephew the other night that Mike the old horse wasn't well and wanted Dad. to come up. There was aparently nothing the matter with Mike but the fellow gave him a bag of oats & hay for pay. Queen went fine. We hooked her up again this after noon with Joe and drove down to Ott. Collins with the lawn mower. We came back by the plank as this road was awful. (I have went to sleep.) Wyatt Waddle and Mr. Harris of the Massey. Harris firm were down for awhile to try and sell Dad. a corn cultivator but he didn't bite. He said Mr. Harris was the decentest agent he had seen for a long time as he didn't coax at all. Lovely day.

Friday May 26th

This morning Dad. and Frank did some ditching in the back field and Frank took his bee hive back to the woods to see if a stray swarm would take possession