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[[stamped page number]] 102 [[end stamp]] Trinidad 36.

[[underline]] Station 108. [[/underline]]
Along the river road about ten miles north of Arima. One Staph caught flying in the car.
  I got a little wet riding with the bamboo on the top of the car, and was pretty tired. Mr. Adamson brought us home before dinner.
[[left margin note]] XII-23-35 [[end margin note]] In the morning went with Ruth to see if Cecil Jemmott was at his store. Have tried several times lately but he is always out. He advertises to buy stamps and we hope to persuade him to see us some in quantity. He was not in, so Ruth went to town, and I went to wharf to arrange for storage of the crate. They said it would be O.K. In the afternoon we worked on one of the sheets of stamps I got from Muir & Marshall's on the 21st. They cost 30¢ apiece and catalogue about $1.75. These were intended to be Christmas presents but we couldn't wait that long.
[[left margin note]] XII-24-35 [[end margin note]] Went over early to see Jemmott. After some running around I found him and he took me to his home where he keeps his stamps. He had a box full (he estimated at 5000), and I finally bought the lot for $15.00. It as apparently unsorted and he included a sheet of stamps that catalogue around $2.00. I forgot to say yesterday that I got for Ruth a set of coffee spoons
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that she had admired in a window. They are cheap but she thinks they're nice, so it's OK with me. In the afternoon we worked on the sheet from Jemmott and later opened the big lot and started sorting them. Found a very fine set of Trinidad and Tr. & Tobago, many of unusually high value. So far are very well satisfied with it.
[[left margin note]] XII-25-35 [[end margin note]] Christmas. We didn't have a real celebration but had a few things to open. Ruth gave me two neckties and two books--"The Ex-Detective" by E.P. Oppenheim, and "The Door with the Seven Locks" by Edgar Wallace. She had already given me a subscription to Science. I gave her a set of six chromium coffee spoons that she had admired and the box of 5000 stamps that we opened yesterday. We spent most of the day washing and sorting the stamps. There was little celebration here at the house, though some of the young men had a party in the morning. We didn't have a real Christmas dinner.
[[left margin note]] XII-26-35 [[end margin note]] Boxing Day. We are unable to find out what Boxing Day means. It is a public holiday and there are to be races at the Savannah. It was threatening and rained some in the afternoon. We worked on stamps practically all day. Kept Ruth at it so that she'd forget that ^[[she]] gets tired of stamps very easily.
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