Overview
Tues. Mar. 27
Drove my cull ewes + lambs to Levin sale + sold as follows:- 55 4, 6 + fresh full mouth ewes @ 24/2, 32 lambs @ 15/- (b[ouh]gt by Mr. F. Wright of Gladstone Rd.), 5 crock lambs @ 7/- + 1 ram at 14/-. Father also sold cull lambs at 15/6 + cull ewes 6-tooth @ 24/-. He bought 34 2 yr steers at £9.18.6. Near sale yards while prancing backwards + looking at me both my dogs, Scott + Togo, we[re] struck by a motor-car going fast. Scott was crumpled up + nearly killed - he was knocked silly + ran away from me in a blinded sort of fashion, not recognising me + went for about a mile thus before coming to. After a good feed of meat, I tied him up + later he
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managed to crawl home. Father also sold (in paddock) his 24 big bullocks at £14 to be lifted tomorrow morning. Read "The Diamond Master" by Jacques Futrelle.