dinner we sacked up nine bags of oats and Frank took them to the mill and got part of them chopped and part rolled. While he was gone Dad. and I cleaned out the stables which were not cleaned yesterday. The mud makes it an awful job. When he got back they hauled up the wood they cut from the oak and we took all the mangels that were up and in piles into the drive house where they can dry off and not be in such danger of freezing. Dad. went back early to-night after the cows and found the four turkey's which disappeared from their roosting place in the gully three or four weeks ago. He of course brought them up and they roosted to-night in the orchard. Enah had a queer visitor just before tea to-night. A young fellow who seemed too cold, sleepy or stupid to carry on much conversation came and asked for some thing to eat and sat for half an hour hovering over the stove. While there she managed to find out from him that he had tramped from Dunnville and was on his way to Simcoe to be examined. He dozed most of the time he was in here but between yawns he told Enah that he had been picking fruit most of the summer and that he didn't like the cold and wanted to go to Florida to pick oranges, but if he was fit for Military Service, would not be able to cross the line, hence his desire to be examined. He left here in time to catch the seven o'clock car and offered to pay for his supper. It has been cloudy, muddy and raw with spitting snow storms.

Wednesday October 31st

This has been a most miserable day. Raw and cloudy with quite a heavy snowfall which by to-night has covered every thing. It froze the ground quite hard last night so is very muddy. Dad. plowed all morning and I cleared up the shingles back of the woodshed and put the best of them in the woodshed. Frank chopped up the blocks they cut off the oak yesterday. Ham Thompson came down with his ten ewes to put with our ram and borrowed our waggon and rack to haul corn in to-morrow and he wants Frank and me to go up to-morrow after noon to help him fill his Silo. This after noon I just did up the chores and then walked back to where Frank was plowing and found Dad. over talking to John Wess. I went over there for a few minutes and then we came up early so that we could go down to the Hallowe'en party in the Sunday school. Just about tea time Bert Thompson came over and got his heifer. We all went

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