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[[top margin]] ++!! BUN-BUN +++ let Bun Bun go - I have had a year [[crossed out]] yesterday [[/crossed out]] & 2 months yesterday
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DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942
AUGUST 
10
MONDAY

Helen Cu

Cloudy. In the morning I did German, etc
Mother is done with Amy Leanord's picture (Grandma's is finished + dad's is almost done - Dad transalates Spanish all time - talks in it at table, etc.) In the afternoon I went over to see the crippled girl (arthritus), did last + only floor of dreamhouse* + came home around 5:30.
*before I saw girl (Helen Bullock)around 20-25). I rode to store for some peaches + white bread. (peaches vary from 4 lbs. for 25¢ to 5 lbs 
for 25¢) They saw today a $ is worth 59¢. I got my allowance - 15¢. I had $8.64 + have $8.79 now!
[[addition computation]]
$8.64
.15
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8.79



DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942
AUGUST
11
TUESDAY

Helen Curtiss came over in evening til 9 P.M. So I rode to Webster's for 1 qt, (80¢ of ice cream

Fair and hot for a change! In the morning to the store + did German and changed rabbits' cages. (I change Snook's every day for he is in an old birdcage.) After lunch Mabel came over + we got started for the pond at 1:00 P.M. + got home at 5:30. (Got there about 1:30) - 3 1/2hrs)
I took Bun Bun (my rabbit I got in Va last June- all brown-white underneath-my one "Snook" from here is more gray + not pure white underneath.) + Mabel put him in a pillowcase (mine) in her basket + [[illegible]] rode him as far as coming-out place at Atherton's farmhouse (near crossing by Lincoln Street) + let him go in a clearing in Atherton's woods - he hopped slowly away - everything was [[crossed-out]]now[[/crossed-out]] new - he had only lived in a small field when very small. I am sorry, but he was better off free. He was never tame, couldn't be [[crossed-out]] toughed [[/crossed-out]] touched + seldom ate in front of you. I put Snooks in his old cage. 

[[left margin]] We each got our own ice cream - I got orange-pinapple - good [[/left margin]]

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