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square dances had me appalled just as at Orford last summer. Even the "round" dances (waltzes and foxtrots) were danced in a manner that was way beyond me most of the time. But Neil took a few jolts of the Calvert and kept at it finally getting in a square dance with the wife of a local "strong man" we met outside crushing beer cans with his bare hands. Later on as I was sitting watching a "round dance," Neil whirled up and delivered a country maiden to me to dance with while he sat down. She was rather sweet looking and said nothing but wanted to hop and jump and whirl. The result was the first two encores were awful - we couldn't get together. I walked all over her, stumbled around out of step and miserable. Finally she got onto my style and we had a swell time for the rest of that dance, which was the last one. I saw Neil on the side lines looking kind of rocky - too much Calverts. And when the thing was over he related how he nearly got into a fight with a yokel who objected to his [[underlined]] sitting down [[/underlined]] next to his wife. I have heard of Neil getting into trouble at dances like this and wasn't surprised. He was rather rocky so I drove back to Montpelier and to bed.

Montpelier, Vt.
Saturday, June 3, 1939,
We were successful in contacting Messrs. Putnam and Thomas of the Montpelier and Wells River Railroad this morning and arranged to start a survey Monday at 6 AM when we catch the switcher here and ride it to Barre etc. Also there is a two track job at St. Johnsbury which seems to have promise although the Barre & Chelsea quarry job doesn't sound so good.
 
Putnam seems to be an A-1 guy, tall, rangy, slightly dissipated looking New Englander about 45 and V.P. of these roads which are under one management. Thomas is an older man, hale, cheerful and pleasant and I take it, superintendent. He and Neil discussed all men on the B & M they knew in common and some they didn't. Thomas having worked on the B & M as a trainmaster. Neil is a great talker and a very peculiar one to me. About 25% of the time I don't know what he's talking about because he assumes so much and refers to many things so very vaguely. He has many stock expressions he uses 

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