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Dominica #44.

of the morning sorting them out etc. As it wasn't a very good day for going out - rainy & threatening - this was a good occupation. 
I wasn't feeling specially well in the afternoon so I took a little nap. I find that aspirin, taken every 2 hours helps to make me feel better. 
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The gentleman who came in on the boat Sunday is feeling ill with fever, Elena had a fever the other day, and Carlo is ill. They all seem to take it as something to be expected, so I suppose they are used to it. 

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It rained very hard this morning, but I went to the library between showers. While there I got "Holy Deadlock" by A.P. Herbert and a mystery "The Perfect Murder Case" by Christopher Bush Miss McIntyre also offered to loan us her National Geographics of last year so I sent the messenger for them after lunch. 
I also shopped around for shirts for Dick, and material for myself. Didn't find much which would please me, of either. Dicks shirts will be work shirts, but most of them were such poor quality that I disliked buying them. 
The afternoon turned out to be hot and sultry with some sun now & 

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then. After lunch Dick began reading the mystery to me but it got too hot for me to enjoy listening to it so I got up and took a cold bath. 
Last night just about dinner time a big lorry, truck, what have you, drove up on the opposite side of the street and 40 or 50 men jumped out amid shouts and other loud talk. We hardly knew what to expect. It almost looked like a riotous mob. Upon asking the cause of the uproar we were told that the man who has the the garage across the street had driven his car down an embankment. In order to get the car on the road again, he came to town & took a truckload of men out to the place of the accident, and they carried the car up the hill. The excitement we saw was the men preparing to celebrate, (in the rum shop), their achievement. About everyone in town had to come to see what had happened. The smallest things seem to interest and excite these people. 

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I spent most of the morning playing with the dog and trying to get a little exercise so I wouldn't have a side pain. Dick went shopping and came home with 2 shirts and a pair of shoes.