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Theobald "Toby" Barrett Diary, 1920-1921
Theobald Toby Barrett 1920 Diary 78.pdf
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Tuesday August 17th
The Millman's left for home this morning about 9 o'clock and took Enah with them to Brantford where she spent the after noon with Aunty Maude coming down on the five o'clock car, she said Aunty Maude was looking fine and expected to come home this week. dad. Frank and I sopent the ramainder of the fore noon separating the ewes & lambs and marking the ewes we wanted to keep We picked out 13 of the ones we considered the best & the three nbest looking ones lambs, and the put the lambs and rams over in the front pasture west of the house and left the ewes in the orchrad. This after noon we got the binder out an dstarted cut the nbarley in the corner field it is crinkled down and there is a lot of green stuff in it so it looks miswerable, we didn't cut it out separately from the oats in the other en dof the field but cut straight through. We didn't get much more than well started to-day as it was late when we got out. I went down town to-nigjht with domw cream for Aunty and soent most of the evening with Roy & Quint who wer fitting a pipe in Quint's new launch. Cooler looks rainy.
Wednesday August 18th
