after they came in. He had come down from Simcoe with Bill Barwell and had had tea at the Barwells. He & the rest of the family hadn't seen each other all day as Frank had been taking in all the side shows and had dinner on the fairground where the circus was while Dad & Enah had fallen in with Jim Waddle & his sisters and had gone to Miss Waddle's for dinner. It has been cloudy and rather cool but fine, it looked rainy for awhile.

Sunday June 4th

Frank, Enah, and I went to church this morning while Dad. & the baby stayed home and got dinner Aunty came over to dinner, Dick didn't come as he & Dess. walked went to Simcoe last night to stay all night at "Grandpa Meads" and were going to walk back this after noon. Frank stayed down at Aunty's to dinner and went this after noon to Vittoria with Aunty Alice & Aunt Ida in Mr. Johnson's car. After Aunty went back about four o'clock Dad. & I drove out to the Shand's as Harvey Shand was past here yesterday and said they had a colt leaking at the navel which they would like Dad. to look at and I thought I ought to go and see Charlie who just got home from the West a couple of weeks ago. They don't seem to think he is much better. It began to rain before we got home but we didn't get wet. It rained quite a lot all the evening. To-night Frank and I tested the eggs in the little incubator. We only took twelve out of sixty seven.

Monday June 5th

I spent most of the day raking up and cutting the front lawn and got all the part I had to mow with the scythe cut by to-night. Enah & Tid were down town all day as she wanted to get some teeth fixed but Bill wasn't there. Dad. helped her take the baby over in the sidewalk and saw Brirely over there who gave him a full account of his row with Vyse. Brirely has moved into Vyse's house and he says it was in awful shape, then one day Helen came over after something and got on Brirely's garden, he asked her not to run over it and she got saucy so he ordered her off and told her not to come back so that is what started it. He saw Vyse later up at the Quanbury's and Vyse spoke to him about it and in the course of their conversation told Brirely that if he felt better he would mop the sidewalk with him where upon Brirely invited him out to do it but Vyse declined the

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