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I had been noticing that at the Club, when we had turkey dinners that the amount of dark meat was quite surprising.  I later was informed that the dark meat was duck.  It certainly was mild enough!
[[margin]] Oct 1, '35 [[/margin]]  
To-day we decided to try some thing new by way of saving money.  As Dick is going to Mayaguez I thought it a good idea for me to eat lunch and breakfast here in the room, and just eat dinner at the club.  Both of us had breakfast and lunch here.  I think it will be a saving to us, especially as Dick wont be here all the time.  Then too, we can have breakfast as early as we like.

Dick left at noon to be gone several days.  The rest of the day was spent quite uneventfully.  In the evening I heard "Easy Aces" for the first time over short wave.

[[margin]] Oct 2, 1935 [[/margin]] 
I seem ^[[insertion]] to [[/insertion]] be able to spend a lot of time doing nothing.  Some days I cant even account for.

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[[margin]] Oct 3, 1935 [[/margin]]  
Went to town in the morning and was going to get mail at the P.O. but there was such a line waiting that I decided not to.  Going to town on the bus - White Star line - there was a negro woman who was bent on telling her woes to the whole world.  She was throwing herself around and acting quite grief stricken.  It seems her son had just been taken to the hospital.  Some people felt very sorry for her - so they said.

Before I forget, I must mention the beggars.  I might have been a little disgusted with Haiti and her beggars, but there at least one wasn't hounded [[underlined]] all [[/underlined]] the time by them.  Some of the old crones are actually the nerviest I've ever seen.  At the little shop where I buy my groceries there is one old man who comes right in to the store and if the customers refuse to give him a penny or so, he sets up such a blackmailing cry and hue that the proprietor