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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1917
Theobald Toby Barrett 1917 Diary 111.pdf
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dinner we sacked up nine bags of oats and Frank took them to the mill and got part of them chopped and lart rolled. While he was gone Dad. and I cleaned out the stables which were not cleaned yesterday. The mud make sit an awful job. When he got back they hauled up the wood they cut from the oak and we rtook all ther mangels that were up and in piles into the drive house where they can dry off and not be in such danger of freezong. Dad. went back early to-night after the cows and found the four turkey's which disappeared from their roosting place in the gully three or four weeks ago. He of course brought them up and they roosted to-night in the orchard. Enah had a queer visitor just before tea to-night. A young fellow who seemed too cold, sleepy or stupid to carry on much conversation came and asked for some thign to eat and sat for half an hour hovering over the stove. While there she manahe dto find out from him that he had tramped from Dunnville amnd was on his way to Simcoe to be examined. He went dozed most of the time he was in here but between yawns he told Enah that he had been picking fruit most of the summer and that he didn't like the cold and wanted to go to Florida to pick oranges, but if he was fit for
