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[[underline]]July 10, 1914[[/underline]] [[underline]]Friday[[/underline]]

Could not leave on early train because waiter had put my fountain pen away and I could not get it until late in the morning.
We left for Chrast at 10.[[superscript]]21[[/superscript]] am. Plezň is somewhat old-fashioned, fairly clean, and not so high-priced in some things as Prague. There is the usual slow, comfortable way of progressing. (When we came in [[subscript]]^[[/subscript]] [[superscript]]day before[[/superscript]] yesterday, and started off with our baggage, one of the draymen made a vulgar remark (o polibeni [[?]] - ) It seems that such "self-help" attracts attention everywhere, both in Austria and Germany. A man may be about [[?]], and he may be a big strong fellow, but he must not carry his baggage - he must strut empty-handed with
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a "diener" trotting along with his baggage. The turned out quite well,- bright most of the day.
The town of Chrást has had something of an industrial boom, but the old town still struggles along the slope.
On a narrow street leading down the hill from the "main" street, we found the old Černý house, no. 7. A widow, Mrs. Surchý, (who was an Jilek) now lives there with a daughter.
Mrs. Suchý is not well. She is a widow. She says that the house is same as of old, and that the ornamented[[?]] door is the old door, - probably made by the grandfather Černý.
They keep hay in the garret.
The barn is not the original.