as after he saw Dick off safely. he and Huby ran across Jock Paine who was telling them that he has just sold out his business for a quarter of a million and is now the richest man in Port Dover. He bought the first prize car at the Toronto Exhibition so he told them and said he was coming over here to get some mush rooms but he never came. We spent most of the day cleaning out the chicken houses and Dad. carried over the weed seeds and chaff off the barn floor and put in the sheds for them to scratch in. William Ryerse was in after dinner to in vite us three boys out to a dance at his place to-night. He didn't know Dick had gone. Frank and I went out and had a pretty fair time although there was a little too big a crowd. The barn was full of horses and the house fuller still of folks. Wilbur spent the whole evening going around in his old clothes with a lantern like a night-watchman putting horses away and getting them out and occasionally taking a walk though the house to see how things were progressing. Dave and Mr. McNeilly furnished the music but as we had to dance in the small rooms each side of a hall full of people, the one room didn't get a very full share. It has been sunny and quite warm to-day

Saturday September 21st

Dad. and Frank cleaned up the wheat to-day and got some where around twenty-five bushels of clean seed, part of which we will sow, if it ever clears up. There was quite a lot of {shrunken?} stuff in it. This morning I went over to Ben's and dug up a few peony roots to send to Dorrie Clarke and took them down to Marj. She packed them and I took them down and expressed them but had to wait for about an hour at the station to get them looked after so I was late getting home for dinner. Alfred Ryerse came up after dinner to pay us for helping him thrash but we wouldn't take it of course. We finished cleaning up wheat this after non and I carried over some straw to the chicken houses To-night. I shut them all up but the young ones are so wild I couldn't do much with them. Frank went down town to-night and says that Ray & Vernon & the kids came up to Aunty's last night. Fine day but cold wind.

Sunday September 22nd

None of us went down to Sunday school this morning but all hands went to church. Enah drove Ray, Rebecca and Tim home and Dad. walked. Frank

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