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[[stamped page number in upper left]] 84 [[end stamp]] Trinidad 18.

[[left margin note]] XII-3-35 [[end margin note]] Today I don't even have the consolation of going to town in the hopes of finding a boat in. Tomorrow there should be two, the Norden and the Lady Drake, but I think it more likely that the West [[Ira ?]] will bring the motor, on Thursday or sometime. Ruth went to town and stayed most of the morning, getting caught in a shower on the way home. I stayed home and nearly perished for lack of something to do. 
In the afternoon I decided to go out to get a "Guardian," but before I started the mail arrived with a big bundle of magazines and some letters. One of the latter was from Ed, but we've had two written since this one! We spent the afternoon and evening reading.
[[left margin note]] XII-4-35 [[end margin note]] I had made arrangements with the S.S. Co. to phone me as soon as they received the freight manifest from the Norden, so I didn't go to town today. Spend the time cataloguing the periodicals I have here, and also writing the Staph. Reference Biblio. cards for two articles in the volume of American Midland Naturalist I have from the College Library. It was in the afternoon that the call came through that the motor had not arrived. More waiting!
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[[left margin note]] XII-5-35 [[end margin note]] Expected this to be the big day--surely. Ruth went to the dentists, and I went to the printer's to pay for her stationery [[strikethrough and [[/strikethrough]]inquire about 3x5 cards (they quoted 60 ¢ a 1000), and get the MS and proof wrapped for mailing. Then I went over to the P.O. and found Ruth waiting for me. We went down to the Archer Coal Depot Co., and learned that the motor did [[underscore]] not [[/underscore]] arrive on the West Ira. Too bad! What to do? We went to the Huggins Co. but couldn't get much encouragement. Then we went to the Furness office for mail,--a letter from Mother, ^[[etc.]] The only bigness to the day is a [[underscore]] big [[/underscore]] disappointment. After lunch I went down and cabled to Bailey: "Has motor left how reply cable" ($2.05) and about four o'clock got the answer: Steamer Saint Dominguel leaving December seven," (collect, $1.53). Even this is no encouragement. Felt grouchy the rest of the day, and argued with Ruth at length.
[[left margin note]] XII-6-35 [[end margin note]] In the morning went out to the end of the end of the Ste. Claire tram-line and to the Dept. of Agriculture. Sent in my letter to the Director, but he was just leaving and turned me over to someone else. Pound was not there , but I left the letter to him and asked him to leave a [[strikethrough]] letter [[/strikethrough]] message here as to when and where I could get in touch with him. He goes out three or four times a week apparently.
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