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DESKAIDE | THE SILENT SECRETARY | 1942

July 15 
Wednesday

Fair + cooler.  We went with
Daddy early + waited for 
train three to Boston (from
10:00 to 6:55.)Then we rode
all day. = the train had many 
stops & was an hour late -
we got in at 8:00. Then we took 3 subway trains in Boston until we got to Mattapan Sq. where we had pie + milk (9:00) + caught Stoughton bus at 9:30 + got home around 10:00 ( fare - bus - 20¢ each + subway - 10¢ each for whole 3 rides!) Then we took a taxi home!!! Boy, am I glad to get there. I had 1 suitcase, Bun Bun in cage + Mother had 
1 suitcase (both were terribly 
heavy - [[arrow above]] it hurt my hands a lot) + a big folder with painting canvasses in it. We went 
right to bed ( upstairs). Grandma
& Mrs. Barry are O.K.

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.   "No wise man ever wished to be younger"-Swift
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DESKAIDE | THE SILENT SECRETARY | 1942
JULY 16 
THURSDAY

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$ - OWE MABEL NICKEL


There aren't many blueberries yet.
 
Fair + cool. In the morning I
went down to the depot + collected
my bike - in O.K. condition, got
groceries, went home, got bell 
+ valve caps put on, saw Jackie
McGarvey [[crossed out]] McCarthy[[/crossed out ]] + rode to the station to get our tires filled + came home + went to Mabel's, bringing her present - compact + comb to her.  I found an extra comb (white in red case) in her box!  My comb is back home, so I took  + kept this one for it matches my compact. We rode about 5 miles  (part way to Brocton Road + back + I ate lunch and she went home.  After lunch and German we went to the Brocton Pond to  look around (it is 4 miles there) (Before that we shopped + I got a screw (basket) [[for my??]] bike)
I owe Mabel a nickel for an icecream I got. 
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The icecream  (Plum Royale) was delicious - Mabel dropped hers & got another.
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The pond ride was downhill, going + uphill back + we became quite tired - her racer is easier than my bike. 

[[footnote]] "The golden age is before us, not behind us"- St SIMON
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Transcription Notes:
Mattapan is a neighborhood in Boston Stoughton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts