I caught that new strain of flu and for three days I was as sick as a dog.

Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!

He also exhibited these in the Melbourne Exhibition, and carried off the second prize for teal-seed oil, which he manufactured himself from the plants growing in the gardens.

I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad.