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am beginning to understand. Jack thinks I should do O.K. in calculus also with this procedure... if I just barely "get" it I should get an easy "C", if I understand it a little, a "B", etc. Jack himself got a "C" in the course I am taking, from laziness. So I don't worry too much. 

In Urbana there is no law against shooting nuisances, so lately an old codger has been booming away at starlings on our block about sunset when they come in to roost in one tree. He says that 2 nights of shooting discouraged them from getting a foot hold last summer & he has so far tried the same this year with I don't know what success. It sounds so funny to hear him banging away, his somewhat of a menace, since it is nearly dark & he can't see people on the street well against whom ricocheting bullets might fly. When Penelope caught a young starling we were quite pleased, but unfortunately the thing's instincts were so fine that she thought it dead & left it playing dead twice [underlined] (caught it twice), after which time it rejoined its family. Clever rascal.

Love,

Doris