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politeness. But nevertheless, I don’t mind working there, - it is fun to be doing something. Hubbard is a bit sarcastic, - he said frankly he didn’t care much for Maxon or Standley. I said they were awfully nice to you. I’ve been going over a book on Hawaiian trees by a Rock. It is interesting and has splendid photographs of the wild shrubs and fruits (in branches), - most of them ½ & ¼ life size. Why don’t you take a few of the larger things thus? It really gives a better understood picture in its entirety. Rock also would get a photograph of the tree trunk, close view with a branch of leaves against it, as if hanging down from above. Sometimes he would fasten a branch on the trunk by using his knife to hold it. That gave a realistic and comparative touch too. He always left his hat (which was like yours) against the tree when he was taking a larger view. Probably you know all this – but he had such good illustrations that I noted them for you. 

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I rode in with Helen Curtis this morning and she told me how hot you would be down there and how it would rain. I do hope it will pour monkeys and parrots after the first of June! She was there from October till May, at Costa Rica on a plantation, and how she hates the niggers, she said.
Leonard rode home with me. I was telling him of your horseback riding and he related how he rode in Arizona – for the first time in his life. On the first day, he covered 50 miles, and he said he spent all that night rubbing oil on his sore, aching self, but he was at it the next day, and gradually the lameness vanished.
Geo. Hutchinson is in town, - he had an accident flying, but is all right now.
Tuesday P. M. May 6.
I have just come home from a little call on Maud, - I thought I ought to run up there to see her, even tho I stayed just a few minutes. She says that little “Henry is just like Sidney”- he is interested in all the frog ponds now, has fallen in two or three times and come
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