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and is almost an imbecile even to indecency
I dont wonder Grace is cantankerous; poor dear.
Grace, with those 4 fine children as ever was
born. Dear Reginald how I wish he could
have staid.

Tuesday 7 Sept 1915
Cloudy but no rain. I sit in Veranda nearly
all day writing. I write a letter to Muriel
V finished digging the potatoes in the orchard.
Edith picked them all up and emptied them in box.

Emma put up ten cans of red plums.
V tried to hire Ed McDermot to thresh for him. Ed said yes,
for a $1,50 cts per day. V didn't hire him. Mabel Morgan
at 1 Oclock pm and staid till 9 p.m. V hitched her horse
to the buggy, and she drove home, away around the road
after dark; cloudy, dark, and moonless & starless night.
She brought me two books

Wednesday 8 Sept 1915
A fine breezy day, wind South. Voltie got a [illegible]
back. He drove from cheese factory this morning to hire
McLochlin from Jim Morgan. He found H. Halliday
had hired him for 3 months $75 dollars. V is gathering apples