a lifetime, while an ordinary one will only be good for about ten years, he at last promised Tommy his price, Tommy said he could have it for six months without intrest and at five percent after that as long as he liked. It was a beauty Tommy had selected all the leather himself and said it was the best oak-tanned leather that could be had, he had also cut out the patterns Every ring and buckle on it is stamped solid nickel so it is a beauty or will be when it is cleaned up. Dad. told me afterwards he would give it to me for a 21st birthday present, so now with Queen and it I will be pretty nicely hooked up and I am going to take the old buggy to Simcoe as soon as I get a chance to have it fixed. We didn't get away from there till six o'clock so were late getting through with the chores. Cooler to-day.

Wednesday August 9th

We were all morning nearly this morning getting a load of hay but Dad. discovered Jim prostrated down in the gully very bloated and so punctured her, he said he let out a lot of gas and just saved old Jim's life. {Toby's father takes up the diary} for a little while at least. Tobe fell asleep at this stage so I will try and write this up to date. I no sooner finished with Jim than I discovered John going through the fence into the oats so I had to go and get her out and fix the fence, we hauled hay the rest of the day. Pretty hot and dry.

Thursday 10th I forgot to enter in yesterday's diary that we went back at night and got Franks bees down out of the tree and brought them up, we took Jim a pail of water and some hay. Today we hauled hay and had to stack it and gathering it out of the windrow is a low. Whit Dixon came along in the forenoon and delayed us some time buying the steers he bought my two for $135.00 and Tobys for $52.50 or 7 cts per lb if he comes to more than that. It looks like rain tonight.

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