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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1917

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and although the storms all went over or around us we got just enough of them to drive us in but not to wet much We were entertained for about half an hour right after breakfast by Jack Robinson who came in to get a long tooth of his mare's filed down. He was giving us glowing accounts of the time he had in Saskatchewan last summer on "the boy's" ranch. When he left we all went out to the old garden to work at least all the rest but me and I started in to Buko the alfalfa but the rain drove us in and we didn't do much else but putter around before dinner. This after noon we tried it again but with the same results however we did get quite a little bit done. After tea Dad. and I hooked Queen up to the cart and I drove her down town and around the block, she went fine. While we were hooking her up she backed up and one wheel of the cart took the corner off our last cement post. It wasn't a very good one anyway and it was the thirteenth post made

Tuesday June 19th

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