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where they specialize in mixed ale - we had a couple of "Boston Specials", a dark, heavy mix but very sweet and potent.

After dinner at a summer hotel en route to Falmouth Foreside where Rep summers, we went to the new "Repetto Ghetto," a roomy comfortable cottage near Casco Bay. And over several Scotches, we had an evening of conversation, Rep doing most of the talking and on the subject of Shadkin, the originator of the World's Fair idea at New York and an ex-coworker of Rep's. What an eccentric Frenchman! Story after story too numerous to mention but all showing a brilliant but slightly unbalanced mind. When the moon came up, Marie Neil and I walked down to the beach where a little sailboat was moored, and looked out over Casco Bay in the pale light of a misty moon and heard the seals barking and it seemed strange to be here tonight and last night at the Kahkwa Club - so different.

Rockland, Me.
Thursday, July 6, 1939.
Saw old Ernie Bloss at the station this morning, and he was cordial; I find I like old Ernie. And we saw the "Flying Yankee" now rechristened "The Mountaineer" because she makes a run daily up into the White Mts. for the summer travel. Neil and I contacted Mr. Wood, Supt. of the M.C. about our survey and found him very pleasant - a middle aged, calm, gentlemanly sort of man - not so much the R.R. Type. Then we contacted Tom Sawyer in Ray Moore's (Master Mechanic) office. Tom was the same old self confident rather blatent Tom but not a bad egg for all of it - just sort of peculiar.