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at Mackinaw will doubtless prove very agreeable.

Tom and I are having a good time.  We occasionally find something to kick at but after having kicked we usually conclude that we are the ones who really need the kicking.

We spend lots of time in doing practically nothing.  Of course we delude ourselves with the idea that we are industrious but I can assure you that if you were here you would consider us hopelessly indolent. 

Well, to be lazy in this country is to be happy and that is what we are out for. 

The natives tells us that the days are very hot, that the "Scirocco" now blows, that the wind will kill &c. &c. but Tom and sit still and