128

Sunday June 1st

The boys went to sunday school & church & I went down to church. It began to rain soon after we got out so we went down to Huby's after for dinner. Huby was in his bare feet and had just finished hoeing his garden. Frank & I came home soon after dinner but Dick went up town.

Dad. & I went for a little ride to night. I rode Joe & Dad. Ginger. Mr. Fleming, Vyse, Roy Bannister & Allan Law were over here to night day. I saw Jim Blaike down town this morning. It has been very hot to-day with two heavy showers the last of which was to-night.

Monday June 2nd

Dad. was greatly surprised this morning as he was going to the cow stable, to hear a strange whinny in the horse stable and upon investigation to find Belle the grand possessor of a colt full brother to Queen. He is a lively & strong little fellow and has been on his feet nearly all day. He is about the same color as Davy & has the same triangular spot on his fore head he has two white feet both on the same side and his legs are as crooked as rams' horns.

We heard yesterday that Johnnie Walker had been made take his horse off the dray on account of a sore neck which it had. and as we were very anxious to get the corn field finished up and as the advent of Belle's colt has knocked the use of her, we drove down to see what arrangements we could make for getting Johnnie's horse. We met him just coming out, and he said he wanted to get the horse out to pasture and that we could take him, but would have to be careful about working him or that "thingh" by which he meant Aikens I suppose would be jumping on him again.

Aikens was the one who raised the row and it was nothing but a dirty piece of spite work. He didn't go to Johnnie him self but to Ellis Ryersie who was driving for Johnnie as it was while Mrs. Walker was dead in the house, and told him to tell Johnnie to take the horse off. Ellis evidently thought there was enough trouble in the house so refrained from mentioning it, whereupon Aikens tried to get out a summons against Jack, but Bond wouldn't issue one. Most people seem to think it was a low down trick of Aikens to bother Jack at such a time especially when it is none of his business anyway. Dad. went up and saw the old horse whose name is Joe. and found he has a sore shoulder as well as a

Transcription Tips

• Follow the example of transcribing provided in the first few PDF files of this diary.
• Click Edit when you’re ready to start transcribing.
• Click Detach to move the transcription box to a convenient location.
• Copy the text as it is, including misspellings and abbreviations.
• Start each new day with a new line. Otherwise ignore spacing and alignments.
• Use toolbar heading options for any headings in the text, i.e. diary titles.
• Use toolbar table generator for any tables in the text, i.e. finance records.
• Use toolbar comment option to add your own comments, i.e. illegible text or uncertain names or description of drawings.
• Use toolbar stroke through text option to transcribe crossed-out text.
• When done press "Save Transcription" to save your work.
• Note: If a line on one page appears to carry over on the same line on the next page, please check the next page and (if applicable) transcribe both pages together as if they are one page. Type your unified transcription under the first of the two pages.
• View more transcription tips.(Opens in new tab)