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NASM
T.S.S. „NIEUW AMSTERDAM"

If there was anything I loved to do it was to be in the kitchen & watch my mother makes pies & aid to cut out cakes with these forms [[strikethrough]] made of this & which produced men & animals of all sorts [[/strikethrough]] pigs, cows, birds & fishes I never wearied of it & it was (1) — (2) This was an alloyed pleasure [[strikethrough]] and if there was [[/strikethrough]] any thing I did not like it whole [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] to go down in the celler [[cellar]] [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] (it was dark) [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] was the thing I hated most It was so dark but for a little ray of light that came from the before manhole a hole down which the coal was thrown from the street - So that [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] these word "Now Henry go down and get me a bucket of coal" was anything but welcome. Had I rushed off I could have done it in 3 minutes - but it seemed to me that it was a terrible of pain and I started up slowly very slowly. [[strikethrough]] I hated the dark so [[/strikethrough]] I dragged on my way slowly to the cellar door and started down when 1/2 way down I was supposed  [[strikethrough]] to quite a little [[/strikethrough]] to find the cellar very light & as I advanced the light it seemed someone must have been down there + have left a lamp burning (3) at the foot of the others saw

Transcription Notes:
too many [[?]] to be marked for review and "underline" not to be called out There is drawing of a flag bearing letters: "NASM." which is the flag of the Holland America Line.