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& I set out the croquet set yesterday & played two games. We got terribly interested just like the old fellows in the Luxembourg. 

It always rains when the Stewarts come to Bourron. We expected them on Saturday & on Friday we had rain. Saturday morning was cloudy but when a letter came saying they could not come before Monday it cleared off at once. The rest of Saturday & all of Sunday were bright & sunny. I told Rocheron on Saturday that it would rain on Monday. He said I was a pretty good prophet if I could predict rain two days ahead especially when on Saturday the sun was bright & not a cloud in the sky. Well when they arrived it was simply pouring, pouring so hard that they had to come in by the back door instead of through