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house - Whitey, Earl Kearns, Frank Compton, Gouldy, Jake and I - and it was a very fine session.  Whitey came in late and walking on the air after entertaining some customers.  But he certainly "went to town" on the boys.  I lost 53¢ - not bad.  During one of Jake's exceedingly wild games, I finally dropped out, leaving quite a bit of money in the pot.  Someone remarked he wished he had the king of spades and Whitey said, "Well, I wish I had Forie's good judgement!"  He said it so seriously, it almost sounded as though it had a double meaning - I am sure it didn't but at the time he said it, I had an instantaneous feeling that it was not only poker he had on his mind at the moment.

Erie, Pa.,
Saturday, June 29, 1940.
We heard from Basin Harbor, where I had sent a card of inquiry upon hearing the Tafts are going there, and it looks so good, I wrote them today to try to arrange for our going there too in August.  If they can meet our conditions as to dates, we shall go.  Otherwise, the children will probably prevail on us to go on the "South American" for a lake trip again.

Bought Rog a fishing pole today and this afternoon, he, Bab and I went out to the Channel Piers to try it out.  He had three worms in a can and for the first time in my life, I impaled a poor worm on the hook.  But nearly an hour of sitting with the worm suspended in the channel failed to produce a bite and Rog and Bab had begun to learn that a fisherman must be nothing unless he is patient.  They professed to