her. Lila was over for a few minutes but didn't stay long. To-night Frank and I walked down town. I met Marj. up town and she and I went down to Mrs. Perry's to say good-bye to her but she wasn't home so we went down to Aunty's. Aunty & Aunt Ida were over Brant Hill but Aunty Alice was home. Marj. says her throat is much better and intends to leave for Toronto in the morning

Friday July 13th

Frank went over to pick strawberries this morning but about ten o'clock Enah saw his bees swarming so I went over to tell him, he said first he would let thenm go till noon and then try to find ther queen and killed her so that they would all go back to the hive but when i got home they had settled in two clusters and Dad. was very much afraid they would leave so I went back again to get Frank. Dad. thought he had bettwe hive them as the season is late and they ought to do well fromnkow on. HOwever he hadn't any thing ready and at noon the Quanbury's came in after a piece of ice and Art told him to hive both bunches separately as there would be a queen in each, it was what he called a swarm and an afterswarm. He hadn't enough frames for both hives so he took some out of the super of the old hive. When h=ge gpot thimngs ready he put one of my chicken house cotton-frames down under th cluster and the hive on it and then cut the branch off that they were clustered