and visited with Clara for a short time. {Bud?} is away before going to bed. Beautiful day. It is a rather depressing sight the condition of the farms along the track, field after field of oats in shock and very few in, any amount of alfalfa standing in cock badly weathered, and most of the summer fallows green & untouched. I only noticed one field sowed.

Wednesday September 8th

I was awake before daylight this morning and up soon after. I got Harry B. dressed. I slept with him & Marj. had the other two with her. I took a little walk before breakfast and Harry B & Donny had quite a romp to-gether in Clara's little backyard. Her young Scotch maid was delighted with the "bonny wee kids" We were all up in plenty of time but dawdled a little too long over our breakfast and then had an awful scramble to catch the Haliburton train which left at 7.45. Clara drove us right down to the tracks as we thought we would save time but we had to climb through between two other trains to get our own and just got on board as she pulled out. I hadn't time to say goodbye properly and to pick out a decent seat but had to jump while they