OF AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT 7 



porridge, plenty of meat and potatoes three times a 

 day." 



In those days sirloins and ribs of beef represented 

 meat to our British understanding, and for a time 

 after that solemn warning housekeeping was dis- 

 tinctly on the expensive side. But as a matter of 

 fact the average Canadian is quite an easy person 

 to feed. During the summer he will tackle pork, 

 salt or fresh, three times a day without a murmur.^ 

 But as I was but five miles from the butcher, fresh . t 

 beef was always available, and in those days cheap, '-p^^' 

 though nearly always tough. After a while I got 

 into the way of making scones almost as well as my 

 Canadian neighbours, and with pork and beef, 

 bread, butter, scones, treacle, milk pud3ings, and 

 stewed evaporated fruit, the advice of Dick McGusty 

 was fulfilled. 



The new binder worked exceptionally well. The 

 weather was deliciously hot. My sister Hilaria and I 

 spent many lazy delightful hours resting against one 

 or another of the daily increasing stooks, and we 

 noticed that the same manner of taking one's ease 

 was very popular with both our stookers. At four 

 o'clock we took out tea and cakes to them, much to 

 the amusement of our English neighbour and the 

 scorn of my brother, who had withdrawn entirely 

 from the harvest-field and was gathering hay from an 

 adjoining slough with Charles Edward, the diminu- 

 tive Indian pony, and Kitty, the cart-horse mare ; 

 Jim, the leader of the big team which we had pur- 

 chased from Messrs. Johnson and Creamer of South 

 Qu'Appelle during the early days of the summer 

 for my brother's homestead, having taken third 

 place on the binder. 



