borrowed his spoon again to dig the earth out of the anchor post holes which has caved in since I dug them. When I got back we took out some sand. cement and the dipping tank which we filled with water bailed out of the holes (they were nearly full) and put in the locust posts for anchor posts. We set one before dinner and the other two this after noon. I too John Wesses spoon back before tea when I got through with it. Enah went down town this after noon. I cut a little more lawn to-night. Sunny but still a cool breeze.

Friday June 14th

We took out some brace posts and all the good fence posts we could find around the place this morning and gathered up the few that were left along the wall. Frank and I put them in before dinner and finished the row from the road to the north west anchor posts. Dad. spent the day harrowing over the corn-ground but didn't finish. This after noon Frank and I pulled out the rest of the fence posts in the gully cross-fence and stretched a little more barbed wire on the top of the lane fence. We all quit early and after tea Frank and I went over to the potato patch. I rode Belle over and cultivated the clay patch and Tig McBride cultivated the others, we also went through Lorne's. There were seven or eight hoeing but they only got the sandy patch hoed and we intend to hoe the clay on Monday. Frank took his foot ball over and we had quite a game when we got through work. Dad. Enah & Tid drove down town. Enah went to hear a missionary from the North-west and Dad. & Tid went fishing. Cool.

Saturday June 15th

Dad. took the team and waggon back to the top of the gully hill this morning and we hauled up a load of posts and fence boards out of the gully with the team and chain making several trips. We got all the stuff from the fence on the north side of the gully pretty well cleaned up. we got enough posts out of the load to go along the west side of the cornier field and after we had unloaded the other stuff we took them out and Frank and I worked till noon putting them in and Dad. went on harrowing the corn field. This after noon Dad. finished harrowing the corn field and the garden north of the shop and then culti-vated all through every thing he could in the old garden. Frank spent the

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