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Monday, May 11, 1908
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You can string me up and shoot the buttons off my coat if I did a bloomin' thing today. By gum, this is nothing but a grand sweet loaf from sunrise to sunset. I wish business would buck up, though, I do. It must be fun shelling out expenses in New York nowadays. I got in one good lick while I had the chance, in February,- too bad it couldn't be kept up. However, it was enough to run us for a while.

It's two o'clock, and I have a good fat sleep staring me in the face until tennis.

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Tuesday, May 12, 1908 
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Did you ever Reade "The Cloister and the Hearth"? By gum, but it's a mighty interesting story, and one of the most pitiful I ever read, as well. It is written in a good cause. "Rats!" says the pope.

Another spell of cool weather. May so far hasn't been nearly as bad as I anticipated. I'm beginning to believe that, in common with the other slanders I have heard on this sparkling and matchless gem among burgs, the knockers knock for knocking's sake only. Aden is fairer than it is painted.