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harbor was alive with sailboats - never have seen so many before.  We drove too all around the crooked little streets - probably no other place just like it anywhere.  Then Ernie headed out across the Causeway to Marblehead Neck and the Corinthian Yacht Club near the harbor mouth.  We spent the rest of the afternoon watching the boats - boats, boats everywhere and mostly sail boats here from the little catboats the children sail to the big, sleek, graceful international class.  We had a cool Scotch and soda on the porch and Ernie said there was no way I could pay for a thing out here - "that's why I got you out here."  No one will ever tell me Ernie is one of these complacent railroad gentlemen who are perfectly happy to allow you to spend money on them with no return.  This was his money too - not B.& M. money.

There were two beautiful tennis courts at the Club and it made me realize how much I want to succeed so Bab and Rog can have advantages like that - good facilities for sport, good instruction, good companions, as they grow up.

For dinner, Ernie invited over his "girl friend" and her younger sister, Betty and Sue Truman, (think Truman is correct) very pleasant girls who live in Salem.  We spent the evening at the Club talking after a delicious lobster dinner and about 10:30PM we drove to Salem where I was dropped at the Richmond Station to return to Boston.

The upshot of it all was that I realized how important it is to play the game as you see it to be right.  By doing so today, I had a perfectly charming day all the way around.