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friendly and with pretty form on the tennis court although not yet a very good player.  I liked Marjorie;  there was something about her that just hit me right.

Larry, the 6 year old boy, was a nice youngster who used to scare us by carrying around a strange half wide bow & arrow which he shot most anywhere.  Taft got in bad with Mrs. R. by admonishing Larry to go easy with it lest he put somebody's eye out.

The Bryants:  Mr. Bryant was a middle aged, heavy set, rather farmerish looking man at times till he got his pince-nez on.  I think he wanted to mix with the other men but just didn't possess the faculty.  His bridge was terrible and when he was taken on at horseshoes as an expert, he flopped at that.  He seemed rather ponderous.  Too serious, and unable to be friendly - just one of those people who just can't be a good mixer even when given time to work into it.  His wife was more friendly but I saw little of her.  The daughter, Betty, 17ish, was a gawky, sharp faced youngster who seemed to do much better than the old man.  When we left, she said we should say hello when we went through Auburn because they had a farm there on Genesee St. but I don't think that was anything but a summer place.  Don't know where they lived.  Had a Packard six.

Blanche Canavan:  New Yorker at Shanty Shane alone - 30ish, secretary to some civil engineers in N.Y. and a good mezzo-soprano voice.  Poor Blanche was put into the cottage with Bemford, Garwood, et al. at first and they snubbed her so she moved