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St Lucia # 30 - St. Remy 9

Emmy said "I'm afraid of her".  She didn't look specially vicious, but there is no accounting for fear.
After being interrupted several times while sitting on the porch, I decided to follow Dick and hope to meet him as he came up the hill after collecting.  I walked as far as the little savannah and I thought of whistling to him.  I did so and he answered, somewhere below me.  I decided to go down the hill a little further.  The path was not very bad, only I didn't have my "roughing" shoes on.  The ones I had got very slick.  I kept whistling & Dick would answer and finally we met - down by the river!  Part of the path went through young cocoa grove, and along the edge of a deep ravine. At the head of the ravine is the best example of a pot hole I have ever seen.  Twined back and forth across the hole are the roots of the trees on either side of the ravine.  It is a most interesting sight.  We also saw trees with "mountain cabbages" growing out of their centers, and trees whose trunks looked artificial - like the ones made of cement.  The only animal life I saw was an old sow and her baby.  They had been staked out at the river's edge.  The sow was quite belligerent.  
Lunch was quite nice and Dick & I

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sat on the porch a while after it - petting the cat.  We then came in and he rubbed my shoulder some more, and then I took a little nap while Dick set about counting how many stamps there are which have maps on them.
Before tea Dick went to town to mail some letters (one to Martha asking her to buy me some hose) and buy some stamps.  He returned with 3 stamps for my collection a 1 sh. 2/6 and 5/ - they do not have any of the 10/ here in Soufriere.
Miss du Boulay returned after tea and her mother came with her.  This is the first time I've seen her mother.  She is a short plump old lady - very well groomed and she prefers to speak French.Therefore, she says she is going to give me opportunity to practise my French.  So far she has talked & I have listened.
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This morning I went for my first ride on the motor.  It is not half as "scary as I expected it to be.  Emmy & Miss du B. got quite a kick out of me in my trousers, but Dick says I don't look too bad.  I feel that I am much more comfortable than Dick as I sit on the seat and he sits in front of me.  However, he seems quite pleased to have me go with him

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