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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1918
Theobald Toby Barrett 1918 Diary 85.pdf
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Friday July 5th
We all three cocked up hay all day to-day and finished cocking all that was raked before six. There are still about two acres on the east side of the field to rake up yet. To-night Frank and I went over and got Lorne Myers and got him to help us go and put Henry Misner's tank on the wag gon. We had an awful job as just as we were getting the thing on the hind holdster of the wag gon the weight of the engine rolled it over and we worked till eleven o'clock before we got it fixed. He is going to spray our potatoes for us tomorrow after noon. I felt tought all day and to-night it was all I wanted to do to walk home and roll into bed.
Saturday July 6th
Dad. cultivated corn this morning and frank went down and got the piece of teh ladder at the Widespread. I went back and turned the heaviest of the hay that was in swath but didn't feel much like working and spent a good deal of the morning under a tree. Frank came back and raked it up before noon. This after noon Dad and Frank went back and cocked it up and then brought a load up and pitched it off in the horse stable. Neff came after me soon after dinner to go and get the