of it. This after noon Frank took the team back and worked all the after noon but says it isn't any to dry yet. John Wess made a start to-day too, Art. Quanbury came over this after noon and he and Dad. put the picture moulding up in the dining room I helped them for a little while but I measured one piece 23 inches instead of 32 (the yardstick was upside down) and then went to sleep so I went out and continued the work I was at this morning viz. grubbing out the cherry tree roots an digging the strip for my hedge. I got it all dug down to the ditch by to-night. Very hot to-day.

Saturday May 27th

It rained first thing this morning so nothing more could be done on the land. I don't remember what we did this morning but I don't reckon it was anything very exciting. Come to think, I believe I read and cleaned off Queen and Joe, and Dad. did chores and cleaned out the cellar. Frank went back to the gully and fastened his bee hive up in a tree. This after noon I had quite a snooze out in the hay and about four o'clock Dad. & Frank went down town in the waggon to look at the refrigerator Emery is making and I went down to the corner with them to get some of the little spruce trees that are thick down on the side hill in Dicky Steven's orchard. I was about an hour hunting for Frank Awde as Dad. said I had better get his permission to take them and at last found him over at Jack Martin's, he told me to take all I wanted as they were a nuisance, so I went back and got quite an armful pulled before Dad. & Frank got back with the waggon and they took them home for me. I got a few of them set out to-night before dark and heeled the rest of them in. I got them planted down to about the brow of the hill and from there down to the ditch it is heavy clay and I will have to get some other earth to put in. Aunty sent me over a root of the blue lilly but I didn't get it set out to-night. It got very black this after noon and looked like a proper souser of a thunder storm but it didn't ammount to much sort of a drizzle all the after noon

Sunday May 28th

This morning after we did most of the chores and I set out the lilly and before we had breakfast Frank and I went for a swim down below Quanbury's. The water was pretty

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