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Thursday, March 12, 1908
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Today was one of those rare Aden days, - of luxurious dawdling all day long, - nothing to do but drop money at bridge. I got stung for the stupendous sum of one twelve. That's a little over a half in real money.

If I'd known the work out East was as hard as all this, I never would have come out here, that's a cert.

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Friday, March 13, 1908
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This is a hard life. Smith and I walked about a mile this morning to look at some ivory, and the "copper-colored galoot" (dear old frontier days) ripped open one bundle, with two teeth. The elephant's teeth, - not his.

In the afternoon I graciously accepted the loan of Bunny's gharri, and beat it down to Bond's. He pressed me to stop awhile, so we went down to the club later on, and there back to dinner at his ranch. I hear five have voted on me so far, - four are "fixed," from all accts., but the other one and the two that follow are the fellers that are troubling me nowanights.

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Later transcriber: the crossed t in "stupendous" looks a little like an underline but I don't think it is.