Saturday January 29th

Ferdy arrived safely last night and aparently in good condition as whe Enah inquired after his health he expressed the fact "that he didn't have no kick coming." We haven't seen any thing of him since soon after breakfast as he has spent the day in town. Frank was down town most of the morning getting his teeth filled. I did a few chores but spent most of the day making a hopper in the chicken house and putting in a {illegible} and another couple of {illegible}. This evening I filled the two hoppers with a whole bag of rolled oats and also put in grit and dried meat scrap. Dad and Frank went down town and got a load of coal. To-night Frank has gone down again to get a link of stove pipe for the little {illegible} coal stove, it has to be made a {illegible} and {illegible} narrow {illegible} to put on the stove and be {illegible} six inch pipe. Dunn has sent over two {illegible} {Illegible} but none are big enough although Dad. took an exact impression of the hob on a piece of cardboard and sent it down but Dunn said he should have sent down the shape made of wire so he did this after noon. It froze fairly hard last night but except for a cold and raw east wind it has not been very wintry to-day. It is raining & freezing as it comes to-night.

Sunday January 30th

We all got up late this morning and none of us got ready in time to go to church. This after noon Dick, Ferdie & I walked down and I spent the afternoon and evening up at the Bagley's. I had tea at Aunty's and went to church with Aunty Alice. It has been a horrible day raining most of the time, to-night it was pouring rain and very dark when I went down to Aunty's after my overshoes so I stayed all night. Aunty feels quite a lot better to-day.

Monday January 31st

I got up fairly early this morning but it was still raining when I was ready to start for home so I thought I would wait and see if Dad. drove the boys down in which case I knew he would call for me. I finished reading "The Road Mender" by Michael Fairless which I started down there last fall when I was sick and have read part of since whenever I had time, then Aunty Alice and I had a game of chess I had nearly forgotten the game but she reminded me as we went along and we had quite a game. Neither one of us won because about ten o'clock we came to the conclusion that Dad. wasn't down

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