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business from A. to Z. Mr. Marcellus, his assistant was a younger man I think a graduate of the College and also very good natured with a pleasant manner. Between them they made the course very interesting for us with their lectures and general discussions. The lectures lasted from about 9 to 4 and before and after them we had to tend to incubators feed {pens?} of laying hens and bunches of fattening cockrels. Our incubators, all hatched about the same about {0° 9 %?} and they told us we had set a record for Short Course students for hatching At the end of the course we all had to kill and pluck our fattened birds. There were several evening lectures at the College and various subjects pertaining to Agriculture and I attended most of them. Other evenings I spent in different ways going to the show once, skating twice, often spending the time at the boarding house singing with my room mate Charlie Gray while Edna the landlady's daughter played for us. The last week I was up there I visited several of the sons-in law of the family and one night went to a country dance in a sleigh load composed of the church club of which Edna was a member The people were all very kindhearted and it did me good to be amongst them. I went from Guelph to Toronto when the course was over and went down with Hunter & Fred {Presant?}. I saw Fred again in Toronto and spent the best part of a day with him but

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