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comb your hair and change you
clothes.' Well very reluctantly she
begins and after a long time
she changes her dress and apron
dress with torn off drives over
towards night
and takes Rachel home.
E goes too. We sitt [sic] up reading
till 10 pm. I get supper and
V paps a panful of corn frezzing [sic]
hard.

Monday 3rd April
Froze hard last night. Emma
gone to school. Voltie draws two
loads of wood from W.G's. Sr sawing
and splitting wood. He dont feel very
well. Seems to be worried because Emma
dont eat up her bread crusts. Says Holsteins
are no good as a breed of cattle. Darshams
and Ayrshire are the stock to grow and
tis very foolish this winter raising of calves.
I baked beans and cake, got dinner,
washed dishes. Voltie had a phone
to steel shingle the old Daily house
for Day the new cheese maker. The
day has been bright & nearly cold instead
of cool.

Tuesday 4th April 1911.
A cold frozen morning.
Cloudy all day. sap dont run. V drew
manure this a.m. but froze so hard
that he quit the job. Emma at school,
had bean soup for dinner. John Flynn
drove in here for potatoes. V didn't sell
any for he wants to plant a lot. If spring
even comes. Sr says it is going to rain
for the barometer stands low. Letters from
Belle & Grace and Maud