August 26, 1912 - Monday.  After Florence and Roy had taken their departure for the land of Smithfield, I fell to and  did the various household duties that set themselves in array on the departure of guests.  The Lockharts got off about 8 a.m.  I started to pick string beans for dinner, but Mr Bentley presented Glenn with a mess of that  "Swiss Char" and so we had it and custard pie for our mid-day meal.  Swept out the whole of the lower story of our palatial residence;  and washed some parts of the dining room after having got the trio off to school..  Also churned.  Had to use some persuasion in regard to Leonard, but as the time approached  for him to go, he got more resigned, and at last started, if not in high glee, at least in a very settled frame of mind.   They all returned at dinner time very much pleased with the forenoon's performance.   In the afternoon, lessons were learned, the chamber was swept, a  little mending done and supper over.  All are resting from their cares and I must go to bed too.    Harry had a busy day at   T. Graham's  house.

August 27, 1902 - Tuesday.  It was dark and Harry did not go up to T. Graham's today. Sawing shingles etc went on at the mill.  No washing of clothes has been done this week yet.  Jack Graham came in just as we finished our dinner, and we invited him to share the left-overs.  He accepted the invitation and just as he got through dinner, Blair Miller appeared and was entertained in like manner.  Fulton Dunsmore came up with Leonard from school and played a while.  Roy was down town but has returned.  Glenn has not got home yet.  We are to have cheese tomorrow.

August 28, 1912 - Wednesday.  Well, it is not very light at 5 o'clock a.m. now.  We got the washing done in a manner today.  It took until nearly 4 o'clock..  Edith came home at recess and helped finish.  Jessie Strayborn was up a few minutes.  Mrs Bentley was over twice.  Mr Bentley and Geordie were mowing their island in Otter Brook.  Roy and I took a drive with the colt this evening  and interviewed Mr Francis at his barn.  We were sucking information in regard to the money left by Uncle Henry Andrews.  Mr Francis advised us to write J.W. Whitman or the insurance company or interview Uncle Will.   We returned about 9 p.m.  Found most of them in bed - Glenn away - am now on the verge of retiring.

August 29, 1912 - Thursday.  Another day of sunshine, wind, rain and some coolness has passed away.  We had a call from Uncle Will today.  He seemed to be in good spirits.  The ironing got done in the afternoon,  Miss M.E. Creelman called.  Mrs B. was over to Mrs Bentley's  to see if any news had been heard from Burnside - Whittier.  We had seen Allen Deyarmond and Doctor Cox driving last evening, but nothing had been heard.   Harry was up at Tom Graham's all day.  He took some part of Tom's mower up to D.H. Fulton's to get fixed in the forenoon, on the bicycle.

August 30, 1912 - September 2, 1912 - no entries

September 3, 1912 - Glenn arrived from taking you to your school about 10:30 or there about last evening.  Needless to relate, he rose in but indifferent time this morning.  After the various morning duties, the children , including Harry , got off to school. We had our own new potatoes today.  They were quite dry.  Also had green beans.  Mrs Bentley was over a while this afternoon.  She brought her knitting and stayed an hour or two.  Lyle Creelman was down to play with Tom and Morris a little while.  Fulton Dunsmore came up with Leonard from school, and they had luncheon together.  Roy is out fixing up John Fulton's separator tonight.  Glenn is at Tom Graham's.  Morris is tearing round me, and I am in bed now.

Seprtember 4, 1912 - Wednesday.  Dark.  Not good hay weather this forenoon.  We had cucumbers and swiss chard for dinner. Washed Glenn's pants etc.  We baked bread.  Made a visit at Mrs C.D. Creelman's from 20 minutes to 5, to 7:30.  Had a nice time.  George O'Brien here to see the boys.   He had been drilling at Capt. Brownell's.  Is at the hotel Strathlorne.

September 5, 1912 - Thursday.  We were up in good time this morning - most of us.  Leonard went to school - got up two in his class.   We had green beans and cucumbers and apple pudding for dinner.  Annie and J.W. Benvie were over today.  Annie told us of Ada having visited them for a week a while ago.   She and I got weighed - She weighs 125, and I , 127.    I'm getting up.  They did not stay to tea.  Beatrice Grant called tonight.    She got the "B" books.  Told us that Marguerite Ellis has the Camden School.  She has 15 scholars.  Trudie Archibald has Greenwood School.  Salary $170.  Winnie Kent has Caribou.  A letter from Martie Barrett arrived today.

September 6, 1912 - September 8, 1912 - no entries

September 9, 1912 - Monday.  It is almost 9 p.m. Harry and Leonard are sleeping in the "Little bed".  Harry arrived home about 11 a.m.  He had taken Alden quite a bit on the road toward Truro.  Harry did not go to school in the afternoon.   The washing was not finished until after the girls came from school.  We had a letter from Aunt Edith - She has a boy baby.  Doctor Cox called at the mill and at Mr Bentley's shop this afternoon.   One by one this alarm clock is being divested of its running accoutrements.  The minute hand has disappeared tonight.

September 10, 1912 - Tuesday.  Edna still at the rain coat.  We had peas and beans for dinner.  Didn't do much this afternoon except sew a bit.   Roy took Edna home tonight.  She asks $1.50 for making a coat.  Mr Bentley was over and told us about Mr Colburne's, the minister in Musquodoboit, little boy took butter color and died.   Also Mrs John Steele is dead in Mass.  USA.   Charlie Miller's son Henry is home from British Columbia.

September 11, 1912 - Wednesday.   This dark and rainy marriage day of J.J. Cox and Ethel G. Johnson, has gone by at last.   Geordie Bentley had arranged to kill his pigs  but Holmes Smith was unable to perform the operation, so Ed MacKenzie officiated at the slaughter of   Geordie's swine, and ours too.   Leonard was not at school.  Too wet for him to go.   Kate lost her colt last night.  We can't work her for a few days.   Roy invested in a cod fiser (sic) and also ordered a quater of beef from Martin Fulton, Newton Mills. We are honored by the presence of Mr Charles Pace tonight.   Louis and Raymond Graham were here to tea.  Their parents were up to Pembroke.  Harry is much more interested in "The Cornet of Horse" than in his lessons.  We baked and churned today.

September 12, 1912 - Thursday.  A lovely fine day.  Stanley Fisher, Newton Mills, here to dinner.   Harry went up to Martin Fulton's for the beef after school.  Was down to H.T. Fulton's  to take up the proceeds  of the dead pig.  It weighed 115 pounds  @ 10 cents  per pound.  Got various needful things.  A suit for Leonard etc.  Mrs Dunsmore returned today.  Fulton was up to see Leonard after school.

September 13, 1912 - Friday.  Another lovely day.  Mrs B. went up to see Mrs Tom Graham.  Packed beef this forenoon.  We were baking and ironing.   Was at W.F.M.S. this afternoon.   Roy went to H.C. Dunlap's to fix a boiler.  Glenn went to Smithfield after Florence.   They have not returned yet.

September 14, 1912 - Sabbath evening.  Roy, Edith, Edna Lockhart and   ........Truly were at Y.P.S.C.E.   All came home together.  Mr Clement Bentley and Miss Bessie English were at the meeting.  Glenn got home somewhere about ten o'clcok.

September 16, 1912 -  Monday.  Harold and Edna Lockhart got away between seven and eight a.m.   Mr Bentley went to Brookfield with Harold.  He was on the way to Truro (Mr Bentley).  Mrs Bentley was over.  Churned before breakfast.  Picked a half bushel of tomatoes.   Harry down to H.T. Fulton's for molasses, vinegar, sugar etc.  Martha Pace called.

September 17, 1912 - Tuesday.  Hard frost last night.   Washed.  We cut up tomatoes, onions etc.  My thoughts are far too mixed up for words.  Mr and Mrs Ed Brown and Wallace drove to the Village this afternoon.   Ed seems to be failing.  Is very thin, weak, etc.   Mrs Ed Brown said she had seen Mrs Lewis Fisher once, before she walked.

September 18, 1912 - Wednesday.  Mixed bread before breakfast.  We made chow-chow today.  Also shelled beans for dinner.  Picked the cucumbers.  Mrs Billy MacMannus called.   We heard of the marriage of Mrs Reid and Charles Dawson today. Mr Holman is working at Mr Bentley's house.

September 19, 1912 - Thursday.  Dark and misty, but not rainy.  We were refreshed by the appearance of J.W. Benvie this morning.  Also Perley Graham.  They favored us with their company at dinner.   J.W. B. is remaining all night.   Was at Tom Graham's to tea.  Was up to see the little ones who are not very well.  A peddlar is here tonight.  Simon by name.   Harry Graham, George Bentley, Freeman Vance, J.W. Benvie, Roy and Glenn are among  the serenaders at the Dawson-Reid marriage.   Tom is asking me "What are you staying up so long for?"

September 20, 1912 - September 22, 1912 - no entries

September 23, 1912 - Monday.  A lovely day.  Harry took Florence out to Smithfield this morning  Started about 7:15.  This forenoon we prepared beans and washed clothes.  Harry got back about 10:30.   Fulton Dunsmore was up this afternoon.

September 24, 1912 - Tuesday.  Another fine day.  The Exhibition in Musquodoboit opened today.  Mr and Mrs Charles Blaikie and Lloyd went; they called here and had a bite to eat.   Grandma busied herself picking and shelling beans this afternoon.   Harold Lockhart is up tonight to get some lumber, I reckon.   Roy went over to Mr Kidston Henry's tonight.    He will attend the Exhibition tomorrow.  Glenn goes on his bike.

September 25, 1912 - Wednesday.  Another fine day.  Glenn departed for the Musquodoboit Exhibition this morning.  HE GOT UP AND MADE ON THE FIRE THIS MORNING!  Was that strange?    We spent our time shelling beans this forenoon    Harold Lockhart went away in the early hours of the morning - 7:30 or there about.   Mrs Bentley was over in the afternoon.  Mr Mellish is there tonight.  George Bentley is going to Brookfield in the morning with a load for Mr Mellish.  Charlie, Bessie and Lloyd have not got along yet.  Perhaps they won't tonight.

September 26, 1912 - Thursday.  Fine.  Well, Roy arrived near 10 o'clock last night.  Charlie and family had gone back to Truro via Lower Stewiacke.  We saw no more of them.   Glenn, Perley Graham and Seymour Johnson got home on their debilitated and diplapitated  bikes about 3:45 a.m.  They feasted on what they could lay hands on and then retired to repose without disrobing at all.  They got a mid-forenoon breakfast and footed it home to Burnside.    The new Post Office - Lower Burnside - is in full running order now.   P.W. Graham is the mail-carrier between it and Otter Brook.  We washed clothes.  Went up to see if Mrs T. Graham could go  to Smithfield tomorrow.  But she don't think she can.     Oscar Johnson died today.  Mrs C. McMullen is very low tonight.   Both have been ill for many months - yes - years.

September 27 , 1912 - September 29, 1912 - no entries

September 30, 1912 - Monday.  Wet and dark.  Glenn got back from Smithfield about 10:50.   He got the mare shod at Martin Smiths.  Judson Graham was here to dinner.  Mr and Mrs J.W. Deyarmond were here a little while in the afternoon.  They came down for the funeral of Mrs Charles McMillan who died September 29, at about 7 o'clock.  The funeral was held in the Hall at 2 o'clock.  Quite a large funeral considering the weather.   The lid of the casket was covered with flowers.  She looked lovely - youthful and fair.  Mr Archibald preached from the text "There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God".  He was very earnest, as he always is.  Roy returned a little after six o'clock.  We had a call from Mr Abraham Bentley this evening.  Glenn remained at home.  Got to bed by 9:30.  Wonderful!!!

October 1, 1912 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine.  Washed the clothes.  Allie Graham here to dinner.  Grandma not overly well.  Nothing of note occurred today, I don't think.  Glenn hastened to the store after tobacco at 8:45.  It is now nearly 10 and there is not return of him.  Roy is "Booking".  I must retire now.

"Let us build then, straight and sure
  With a firm and ample base;
  And ascending and secure
  Shall tomorrow find its place."

October 2, 1912 - Wednesday.   A wet day.  Our poor oats lie soaking in stooks on the oat - field.   Ironed some - churned.  We got another barrell of flour today.  Allie Graham came to work.  Mrs Ned Tupper went away to the States yesterday.   Glenn had a quiet talk - now he has left and gone downstairs.

October 3, 1912 - Thursday.  Dark.  Some sunshine.  Baked bread.  P.S. and Danny Hamilton and Lyman Fulton here to dinner.  Esther Graham called.  Am sleepy - almost going to sleep. 

October 4, 1912 - October 6, 1912 - no entries

October 7, 1912 - Monday.  A fair october day.  Glenn says I hollered from one o'clock until 5 a.m.   However Roy got up about 2:10 a.m.   Bub about 3 and the others of us one after another.  Harry took Flossie out to Smithfield - got home 10:10a.m.  The washing was finished about 4:15 p.m.   We got all the clothes dried.  Allie Graham came back.  They are looking for a crowd to thresh grain tomorrow.  It behooves me to get up early in the morning - if I am spared and well - and get to cooking.  

"Within a lordly garden , there grew a brier tree
  Around it there were blossoms, that lovely were to see;
  The lily's whiteness mingled with the crimson of the rose,
  And the many-tinted pansy that in varying colors blows;
  But alas upon the brier, no flowers were to be seen
  In balmy days of summer, or when the spring was green;
  But thorns both sharp and prickly, and many a piercing spear, 
  Were a warning unto everyone, lest they should draw too near."

October 8, 1912 - Cool, but fine. We prepared for and had the thresher today.   They just threshed the oats as they carted them in.  Only Dryden Power and Adam Wright were here to dinner besides ourselves.  Joe Dawson was here to tea.    He is quite a speaker.   Spoke on church and school affairs in particular, after tea.    An "Enlarged Picture" man called this afternoon, but we gave him no orders.   Roy has gone on a trip to Musquodoboit tonight.   Glenn and Allie are off to regions known to themselves.   We had 87 bushels of oats.

October 9, 1912 - Wednesday.  Fine and windy.  Roy arrived about 3 o'clock a.m.  Ironing and baking today.  Was over to Mrs Bentley's a little while.   Mrs M.E. Creelman was there.   Rev J.H. Stewart is to be inducted October 17.  That is coming near now.   Don't think anyone got to the Local Union in Middle Stewiacke.  Joe Archibald called tonight.  Grandma put up a little blood.

"Would live again the season's pleasure
  In a brief, bright holiday
  Even the last leaf from the branches
  Shall be rudely torn away."

October 10, 1912 - Thursday.  Dark and a bit drizzly.  Mrs Blaikie not very well - but able to be about - feels the cold very much.  Mr and Mrs Benvie came about 10:30 and stayed until 4:15.  They had some buckwheat to crush.  Told us of Annie Benvie getting Goffs School.  Salary $160.   Judson Graham  here too, to dinner.  Patched some tonight.  Roy got some bacon at Fulton's store.  Must retire, it's 9:30.

 "When sitting alone oft in the throng
   When evil allures us or sin draweth nigh
   A whisper comes gently,"Nay , do not do wrong"
   And we feel that our weakness is pitied on."

October 11, 1912 - Friday.  Another fine day.  They finisned sawing the shingles for the school-house.  Grandma not very well at all.    Bub and Roy put the new knee in the pipe of the furnace this morning.

October 12, 1912 - October 13, 1912 - no entries

October 14, 1912 - Monday.  Fine with cool winds.  Olive stayed home since Grandma has been laid aside since Saturday. Doctor Cox was up to see her on Saturday.  She is weak.  Allie Graham came this forenoon He told us about George MacKay having another boy.  Mrs Elizabeth Ellis died on Saturday - aged  82.  Funeral today.  Mrs S.A. Fulton  and daughter Mrs W. Nevins attended.  We had a farewell visit from Fulton Dunsmore this afternoon.  Roy, Allie and Glenn up to Tom Graham's tonight.

October 15, 1912 - Tuesday.  Quite fine, windy and cool.  Blair Wright died this morning, or last evening.  The reception for the minister is given up.  Mrs Matilda Fulton gave us a lengthy call this afternoon.  She came up to see Grandma.  C.F. Cox put in the furnace today.  In the Presbyterian Church, I mean.   Harry took the last load of the school-house shingles down tonight.   Mr Francis got hurt by being thrown under the potato-digger yesterday.  We heard that he was quite seriously injured.

October 16, 1912 - Wednesday.  Fine, but a cold wind.  Late getting up this morning.  Made things late all day.  Olive at home two days now.  She is a great help.  Harry was home today too.   Was down to H.T. Fulton's in the new waggon this afternoon.  Got Tom an overcoat and Edith a pair of boots; also two gallons of molasses, a pitcher and a supply of tobacco.  All the boys at home tonight - it is nice that they are.  We churned and ironed.

October 17, 1912 - Thursday.  Fine with cool wind.  Mrs Blaikie slightly better.  Mr and Mrs P.S. Hamilton, Burnside, here on their way to the Induction of Rev J.H.Stewart into this congregation.  Olive and I were the only ones of this family to attend.  Rev. ------------ preached; Rev Mr Morash addressed the minister;  Rev Mr Archibald, the people;  Rev Mr Clarke pronounced the benediction.  The boys are away tonight.

October 22, 1912 - Tuesday.  Dark with some drizzles of rain.   Harry took Florence and Bobby Sill out to Smithfield this morning.   Bobby had been up spending Thanksgiving with his Aunt Lottie,  Mrs Norman Taylor.  Harry got home about 10:45 a.m.    No school here as they are shingling the roof of the school-house.  Ella Cox came up with Olive when she came up with the mail.  Fred appeared soon after to play with Leonard.  They stayed until 4:30 or 5 p.m.  Edith and I washed clothes most of the day.  The crowning event of the afternoon, however,  happened after supper.  The calves having been put in the yard, and Bub and Harry sallied forth to tie them in.  To begin, the night was pitch dark, and as they entered the barnyard, with only Bub's lantern to guide them, Bub suddenly stumbled over some obstacle, and down he came, lantern and all.  "Dash it all, them old sticks layin' round" - was  the most of what was audible to the hearing ear - no doubt he thought a lot more.  Only two calves being in the yard , Harry undertook to get the other, which had gone down the road, without any light.  He jumped the fence, having caught his foot on an unseen root and landing on his stomach once, and blundered over a pile of deal, or rather the ends of the deal.   Then he succeeded in getting the calf back to the yard, when Bub was tying one of the others into the stake , by means of the ears.  He had grasped an ear in one hand and belabored the animal at the back by means of a long stick with the other hand.   Finding this not a very effective means of getting the calf into the barn,  he gave Harry the stick, telling him to lay it on well.   Harry's whacks not having the desired effect, Bub loosened his hold on the calf's ears and  laid on the stick with emphasis - at last by much sharp persuasion, hard labor by tongue and hand, they were tied into their stakes.  Then began a course of upbraidings, accompanied by the laying on of the stick, until Harry was glad to  escape and take time to indulge in a good laugh unmolested by fears of Bub detecting him.    He came up to my bedroom when I was Putting Tom and Morris to bed and says" Mamma, I've been to a circus, and Bub and I were the performers".  Then he told me this yarn, accompanying it with peals of laughter - seconded by Leonard and myself.     Bed time.

 "Fain would we keep thee, fair October - 
  Tho the days seem all farewells
  And the lingering touch of summer
  Stirs afresh sweet memory's bells."

October 23, 1912 - October 29, 1912 - no entries

October 30, 1912 - Wednesday.  Fine this forenoon.  Dark and cool this afternoon.  School reopened this morning.  Mrs Blaikie got up for her dinner.  She was not very well in the night.  Mrs Bentley and Mrs Alex Fulton called this afternoon.  Mrs Bentley brought her knitting and stayed a little time.  Mrs Alex made a very pleasant call.  She had intended calling  on the minister's wife, but heard that she had had cold, and so did not do so.  Roy is "over the mountain" tonight.  All are in bed - I think.  Probably Glenn and Allie are reading.

"We too, shall go over the river of rest
  As the strong and the lovely before us have gone,
  Our sun shall go down in the beautiful west,
  To rise in the glory that circles the Throne."

October 31, 1912 - Thursday.  Cold, windy, chilly.   Just got the regular work done this forenoon , sweeping.  Mrs Alfred Johnson and Weldon here to dinner.  Mrs Tom Graham and Douglas here to call in the afternoon, also Mr and Mrs D.B. Bentley.  Grandma got up to dinner.  Made Edith a pair of pants before she went to school.  also fixed petticoats for her and Olive tonight.  Had a letter from Aunt Edith.  Harry over to Halloween Party at B.N. Foster's tonight.  Glenn and Allie elsewhere.

"Then pause not, tho' dark and alarming
  The sky in the distance may lower;
  Press on, there be regions more charming,
  The sunshine comes after the shower."

November 1, 1912 - Friday.  A fine day.  Harry held a little wax candle to a powder bottle and it went off and burnt his thimb thus disabling him for school today.   They got the top off the boiler and Roy went to Truro - Glenn taking him to Brookfield this p.m.   I was over to Mrs Bentley's a short time this afternoon.  Mrs John Fulton and Mrs Grant Cox were there with baby Jean.  Mr Stewart was out to see Uncle Isaiah Starratt.  Mt Thomas Francis was driving out this afternoon.  Edith and Harry are at Division.

"Like a light that is dim and far off,
  For dark hours full of pain;
  Lie rolled between me and the beautiful past
  That never can come again."

November 2, 1912 - Saturday.  A rainy forenoon, afternoon a little drizzly sometimes, but not much wet.  Glenn has not got home yet.  Think he must have gone to Truro with Roy.  We baked and ironed and swept today.  Also sewed some.  Allie Graham went home this afternoon.  He got a chance up to Burnside with John Graham.  Mrs R.D. Power called this p.m. Also Mrs Bentley; also two or three mankind.   Harry sold his and Leonard's muskrat skins  last night.  He invested in 5 pounds of sugar to last us until Monday.  Don't know any more to write.  Feel a vague uneasiness about Glenn.  But he will be O.K. I guess at last.

"There must be rough cold weather
  The winds and rains so wild;
  Not all good things together
  Come to us here, my child."

November 3, 1912 - Sabbath.  Quite a fair day.  Glenn arrived between 11 and 12 o'clock p.m.  He had gone into Truro  and come out with J.A. Lockhart.  Harry, Bub, Leonard, Tom and I were at church.  Mr Stewart preached a good sermon - about the Christian race, for the eternal prize.  Mr Bentley was over in the afternoon.  Grandma did not get up.  It was too cold.  Bub and Glenn at Baptist church.

November 4, 1912 - Monday.  Fine, quite cold.  Allie came back last night.   They hauled furnace wood this forenoon.  Scaled ashes in the afternoon.  We washed clothes.   We hear that Mr Eben Fulton has sold his place to John Reynolds.

"Sings the blackened log a tune
  Learned in some forgotten June
  By a school-boy at his play
  When they both were young together
  Heart of youth and summer weather
  Making all their holiday."

November 5, 1912 - Tuesday.  Pretty fine but cold wind.  Last night , as I was about ready to get into bed, Roy and a Mr MacIntyre arrived from Truro.  They had brought the boiler top to put on.  I feasted and warmed them and they retired to rest.  Today, Roy got them to work at the boiler and then departed for Edna - They got here about 11 a.m.   She worked at my waist and Edith's dress.  Mr and Mrs Graham Gammell spent the evening here.  We enjoyed their company very much.  Grandma enjoyed it too.  Mrs Bentley was over. Abie mixed paint.

"If your heart is full of sadness
  And your life is full of care
  Help to bear another's burdens
  Someone else's troubles share;
  And in thinking of their pain
  You will find your joys again."

November 6, 1912 - Wednesday.  Fine and warm.  Lovely November weather.  They worked at the boiler today.  I just trod about cooking etc.   There was Prayer-Meeting presided over by Mr Stewart.  He spoke on Philemon.  It was instructive and uplifting.  Came up with Mr and Mrs Alex Fulton. 

"If your life is full of labor
  Tired grow your heart and brain,
  Stretch a helping hand to others
  Bending  'neath life's stress and strain;
  And for every loving deed
  Back will come the strength you need."

November 7, 1912 - Thursday.  Warm but dark.  We finished digging potatoes today.  Also got in the roots.  Mickie MacIntyre finished repairing the boiler.  Glenn has taken him back to Truro tonight.  They (Roy and Mickie), had brought "Von", Charlie Blaikie's horse from Truro, and Glenn and he took it back.  Holidays today and tomorrow, as Miss Blackmore is away at Teacher's Institute at Lower Stewiacke.   Aunt Hannah Kennedy was here all day today.  Her visit was indeed a treat.  She is a fine old lady.   It seems lonely without Glenn about the place tonight.  Mr Eben Fulton has sold his farm and is moving into the Ed Hamilton house.    John Reynolds is the name of the man who "bot" his place.

"The star of the unconquered will
  He rises in my breast;
  Serene and resolute and still
  And calm and self-possessed.
  O fear not in  a world like this
  And thou shalt know ere long
  Know how sublime a thing it is
  To suffer and be strong."

November 8, 1912 - November 10, 1912 - no entries

November 11, 1912 - Monday.  Fine again.  Mr Abraham Bentley painting the house today.  We baked and washed some.  Harry was ill with "Wirtned Inflammation" (sic) or something of that sort today.  I don't know much to write tonight, I guess.       Mr Eben Fulton and wife are moving into the Ed Hamilton house.

"He whom thou dost once enamor
  Thou, beloved, never leavest;
  Through life's discord, strife and clamour
  Still he feels thy spell of glamour
  Him of hope, thou ne'er bereavest."
"They the holy ones and weakly
  Who the cross of suffering bore;
  Folded their pale hands so meekly
  Spake with us on earth no more"  -  Longfellow

"Then might they say, those vanished ones,
  And blessed be the thought
  So death is sweet to us  beloved
  Tho we may show you nought."

November 12, 1912 - Tuesday.  Dark and rainy.  Mr Bentley not painting today.  Mrs John F. Bentley over a little while in the afternoon.  Poor old Charlie Dunlap is dead.  I don't know much more to write tonight. 

"A few loving hearts are waiting
  Longing, wearying for me,
  Far away the tears are falling
  Where I fain would be."

November 13, 1912 - Wednesday.  Fine, and stormy and dark.  Washed some.  Mr Bentley not painting today.  Harry and I were at Prayer Meeting.   Very muddy.  Roy and Edna up to Mr Joe Archibald's in the evening.

"Deep down in the earth, in the blackened soil,
  Shut out from the light, the miners toil;
  But see at the sound of each ringing blow
  How the factories hum; how the hearth fires glow."

November 14, 1912 - Thursday.  Snow on the ground all day.  The funeral of the late Charles Dunlap was held in the Hall here in Stewiacke Village today at 10 o'clock a.m.   Mr Bentley was painting this afternoon.  A very disagreeable day.

"The day is cold and dark and dreary,
  It rains and the wind is never weary,
  The vine still clings to the mouldering wall
  But at every gust the dead leaves fall
      And the day is dark and dreary."

November 15, 1912 - Friday.  Dark and rainy.  Warmer this afternoon.  Very wet underfoot.  We colored an old dress, presented by Mrs John W. Fulton, for Olive.  Colored it Cardinal.  Mr Abraham Bentley was painting at Mr George Bentley's this forenoon, and here this afternoon.  Edith and Edna are up to Thomas Graham's tonight.

"Be the day weary, or be the day long,
  At last it weareth to evensong."

November 16, 1912 - Saturday.  Wet etc.  Some drouth, as the clothes we washed, dried a little.  Mr A. Bentley painting today.  He left before tea, as they are arranging for a Social in Otter Brook, and were to meet at his house.  Edna and Roy went away imediately after supper.

November 17, 1912 - Sabbath.  Some dark, but quite a sunshiny day too.  As I looked at the length and breadth of this old village, I could not but feel that it was beautiful, altho, this is the dreariest time of the year.  It was Harry's 15th birthday.  He seems to have stayed little longer than the older ones.  Mr Stewart preached from the text "What is that in thine hand?"  He took the arguement that  our talents are the things for us to use.  Roy, Bub, Harry, Leonard, Olive, Tom and I were at church.  Glenn and Allie went to Burnside and were at church there.   Harry, Edith, Olive and Roy were at Y.S.C.E.

November 18, 1912 - Monday.  A nice day.  My father's 71st birthday.  Had a card from Flossie.  She was not home the week-end.  Mr Bentley is not well.  He has cold.  Mr John Power has had a paralytic stroke and is at death's door.  Isaiah Starrat is quite ill too. 

"Then might they say, those vanished ones,
  And blessed be the thought
  So death is sweet - to us beloved
  Tho' we may show you naught
  We may not to the quick impart
  The mystery of death
  Ye cannot tell us if ye would
  The mystery of breath"

November 19, 1912 - Tuesday.  Cold and windy but pretty fine.  Lester Bentley was assisting his father in painting today.   Aunt Viney and Uncle Will called.  Also Mrs Frank Cox.  Mr John Power died about 4 o'clock. Died while Mr Stewart was praying at his bedside.  He died of paralysis.   The Reynolds family came to Upper Stewiacke.

November 20, 1912 - Wednesday.  Fine and warmer.  Lester and Mr A. Bentley painting.  Billy Brown here to dinner.  We heard of the death of Mrs Howard Fulton.  Doctor Cox called to see Mrs Blaikie.  Edie and Olive at Prayer Meeting.  Only 14 or 16 there.  Mrs B. has hurt her ribs.  It is late.

"God's plans, like lilies pure and white, unfold
  We must not tear the close shut leaves apart.
  Time will reveal all the calyxes of gold."

November 21, 1912 - November 26, 1912 - no entries

November 27, 1912 - Wednesday.  Some sun, some wind, some cold and a little drizzle of rain.  Over a week since last writing.  Mr and Mrs Charlie Blaikie and Lloyd were out from Friday, or Thursday night, to Sabbath.  Florence was home Friday to Sabbath evening.  Mrs B. fell on Wednesday or Tuesday of last week, hurting her side.  She was in the parlor, after tea, in the dark.   Am keeping Olive home now.  We had a busy day today.  Cyrus Graham and Emma Harrison were married today, and Allie, Glenn and Roy are up at the reception tonight.  Olive was at Prayer Meeting.  Mrs Eben Fulton and Miss Kate Lugrin called.  Grandma's side is easier.

"Be the day weary, or be the day long,
  At last it weareth to evensong."

November 28, 1912 - Thursday.  Dark with snowing and blowing tonight.  A rough night.  We had a quantity of callers today.  First, Doctor Cox in the morning, quite early; then shortly after eleven, Rev Mr Stewart called.  Robbie Deyarmond was here to dinner.  Uncle George Deyarmond called, also J.W. Deyarmond.  Miss Creelman sent Grandma a custard and baked apples.

"Live the Life Beautiful; yes like a child
  Happy because the dear Father has smiled
  Duty and joy in His love reconciled."

November 29, 1912 - no entries

November 30, 1912 - Saturday. Snow on the ground.  Some sleighs going today and yesterday.   The first snow of the season, to lay, came yesterday, November 29.  These two days  have been quite ordinary days.   They intended to go for Florence last night but the roads were too  bad.  Glenn, Harry and Edith were at Division.  Margaret Ann Johnson is very poorly up at Edward Logan's.  It is very doubtful if she recovers.  It is 11:30 now and I must go to rest.

"Only this, but what welcomes wait
  To hail us home at the Pearly Gate
  And awake where the morn is shining."

December 1, 1912 - December 17, 1912 - no entries

December 18, 1912 - Wednesday.  Dark.  Slight snow falling.  Mrs B. is able to be up again.  She was laid up from about November 19 until day before yesterday.  Alden came home tonight.  He seems glad to get home.  Edie and Olive are at Prayer Meeting.  Adam Fulton is staying with Harry all night.

December 19, 1912 - December 31, 1912 - no entries