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[[header]] DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942 [[/header]] MAY 30 SATURDAY Fair. I changed the salt + 1 eel water fish - 2 mummychugs died. I put fresh water + plants in aquarium + put the 2 eels, 1 shrimp, 4 sea anemones, 3 sheepsheads, + 4 mummychugs [[strikethrough]] mym [[/strikethrough]] in salt water in the small jar I had the snails in. 9 fish in all + fed them + put them in the fresh water. 1 more mummychug died. I have 3 left, 8 fish in all. I went to my piano lesson at 5:00. Recital (downtown → across from Kitts) is [[strikethrough]] t [[/strikethrough]] Friday night. I wore shorts all lot today. Dolores doesn't think her dress is nice for the graduating + is afraid to go - she is a chronic worrier -worries about everything. [[Footnote]] "Endurance is the crowning quality"--LOWELL [[/footnote]] [[header]] DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942 [[/header]] MAY 31 SUNDAY Fair. We got up at 5 + went to Wales Bluff + St Mary's City. 1 mummychug died - I have only 2 left, 7 fish in all. We went swimming at Wales Bluff + at Langley's Bluff. I met a girl (11) at Mrs. Tippets (who lives there - we buy eggs from her - 3 dozen today - 1 broke) named Juliana whose adress [[address] is Harrisonburg, Md + we swam together. I saw the 1st live searnettle of the year. I let 1 sea anemone go - I have 3 left. At St Mary's City Dad let me stay at the creek about a mile from the beach - on main road + I caught 1 crab + 1 mummychug, one shrimp. A car with 2 young men stopped + helped me fish - they were nice - I saw the same 2 drunk on way home. I saw a drunk collapse too when we stopped for Pepsi-Cola. There was a big thunderstorm on way home with hail. We started at 6:30 (AM) + got home at 7:30 (P.M) [[Footnote]] "No man needs money so much as he who despises it"--RICHTER [[/footnote]]