them. We put them under two of the setting hens and put the eggs which were under the hens in the incubator. They are due to hatch on Monday. This after noon Frank and I drove the team down town and got some groceries, we went up to Mrs. Leslie Battersby's and got a lot of plants for Aunty which Mrs. Battersby is giving her as she can't take them all to Brantford with her. I got a lot of stuff out of the garden down at Aunty's and brought it over. I got some tulip and daffodil bulbs some lily of the vallet roots, some clematis and Virginia creeper and a little syringa tree all of which I put out when I got home and didn't help do any chores. It took me till dark and the ground was really too wet. Lila was over all the after noon and got some may flowers back in the woods. Frank went down with her to-night. Dad. had to go down to Mr. Flemming's after tea as Chris Quanbury came after him. Flemming's mare had a colt when Dad. got there and it was all right so he didn't stay long. Old Dave Lampkins was in to-night, his new horse that he got at Watt's sale had some sort of fit and he wanted to ask Dad. about it. Tom. Abbot told Dad. he had them before, but they didn't tell poor old Davie that. Lovely day, sunny & mild

Sunday April 16th

Frank went down to Sunday School and Enah and I went down to church we took the baby down and left him with Aunty in the back of the church, and we three boys sat up in the front seat with Aunty Alice and Enah went in the choir. The baby was very good as usual. Dick came over here to dinner but I stayed down at Aunty's. I wernt up to the Bagley's after dinner to see Marj. I got up opposite Kev. Henderson's barn when it began to pour rain. I hiked across the road in there till the heaviest was over and then I got out and up as far as Alfy Dell's barn when it started again so I ran in the lane, over the manure heap and over a couple of bars which were nailed across the open door and waited there till it subsided alittle and sallied forth again, this time getting past the Methodist Church shed before it began to pelt so I just ran for all I was worth to the Bagley's veranda but got rather wet however Mrs. Bagley mopped me off with a duster and I didn't suffer much. After sitting around an hour or so Marj. and I went up and called for Glad Law and went for a walk up to the head of Main St. I went into Bert Thompson's and got the thermometer that belongs to Art Quanbury's incubator.

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