Friday July 4th

We got out fairly early this morning and had one load on by about half past eight. We left in on the waggon till noon and I took the team and raked up what was cut. When I finished raking, Dad. and I took the load up and then cocked up. We finished cocking up by soon after dinner as there were the four of us at it. When we finished cocking up we started hauling again and got in three more loads and put them off. Dick went down town to-night and Frank went out to see Bill Sidway. He says he is improving very slowly.

Saturday July 5th

We established a record for ourselves to-day in hauling hay. We got out soon after seven and haukled in nine loads to-day and had the last one oin the. barn bt=y about half past six. We would have had another in but the. big rope broke again this morning where Lew Brock sliced it last year and that delayed us for some time. Frank found it would too long to splice it again so we used the rope Roy sent up last fall. It is