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2817 - 1st/ Rd. N.
Arington. 20, April 1947

Dear Doris:

Yesterday we let our furnace fire go out, and haven't had occasion to regret it yet.  Today we drove to Liverpool Point and had our lunch there. We walked all the way down the beach but didn't get very much, a few sharks' teeth and ray plates and pieces of turtle shell and a fish vertebra.  We stopped at Upham's on the way home & had a glass of Pepsicola and a cheese sandwich.  Saw a large black snake stretched out in the road as we went down; don't know whether he was alive or dead.   It was fairly warm but not hot. There were a number of dead garpike on the beach which spread a certain amount of odor around.   Flowering dogwood is just coming out, most of it still yellow but some quite white. We got a little, also several small clumps of bluets which mother set out after we got back.

I have still not quite finished making out my Va. income tax. Got our Stoughton taxbills this week. They have gone up a good many $ over last year, mine by $13 and mother's by $48.

The cat took his place in my chair while I was out of it and I have taken him into my lap. He interferes considerably with my writings, and I hope that he will get disgusted and leave. He sleeps regularly on the bunch of Spanish moss on the piazza, when he gets a chance.