fixed the lawn mower all right and he was going to bring it back with him when he brought the can but he forgot. Frank went down town to night and got the mail. The rag man that interviewed Frank the other day came again and gave me 55 cents for all the stuff Frank had gathered up and borrowed my lead pencil which he has got, he gave a haf a cent back in cash for rags or a cent in trade he was very anxious to trade but the straight pails he had were worth 35 & 40 cts and Enah said she could get them for 15 down town. Nice enough day till it rained pretty hot.

Tuesday May 30th

It rained hard again during the night and every thing has been too wet outside to do any thing. Frank and Dad. went down this morning to get some sand but there was a nice ridge of gravel washed up so they got a load of it and took it up to Aunty's to put on the walk and after dinner went down and got another load, so didn't get any sand to put in the mud hole at all. Dad. nearly broke his neck this morning. He was up over the woodshed and when he started to come down his foot slipped on the top step and he fell from there to the landing or rather slid and hurt his back and then instead of stopping at the landing he peeled head first off it and lit square on his head between a couple of stoves. He felt as he said like Pete {illegible} "Considerately shook up" all day. I didn't do any thing much all day except prowl around in the mud. This morning I made a mitre box which I believe is fairly true. After dinner I went back to the gully to see if the bars and gate were still shut as in their hurried exit yesterday Dad. & Frank hadn't taken much pains but they were all right. The oats and barley back there are well up now and look fine as there is no grass in them at all it seems. I brought the cows up with me and it was early but we got through early and Frank and I both went to the picture show to see Margeurite Clark in "The Crucible". It wasn't a bad show Marjorie Clarke & Glad Law went with me. It rained again a little shower about four o'clock but has cleared off. Cold to-night.

Wednesday May 31st

First thing this morning that Dad noticed was that Elgeitha wanted to take another trip to the bull. We were