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Antigua 54

Sunday September 27, 1936.
We were invited to go to the beach with B.P. Slack, but I told Addie, in the morning, that I had too many things to do here so I wasnt going. I had barely told her this when it began to cloud up and during breakfast it began to rain. At present writing 11:15 it is still raining. 
At 3 o'clock I went to see Miss Bessie Harper again - saw her stamps, did some trading, and had tea with her & her mother. Dick had put some doubts in my mind about her collection so I looked at it with a much more discerning eye. The result was that I discovered many errors in placing non-commemorative stamps. Her "commems" are nice but she doesn't seem to take much care with her others. Loose-leaf books tend to become messy unless great care is taken. However, I will try to exchange with her as she has some very nice things. 
While I was there she told me what a good bat catcher her cat is. It seems that the cat mews in a peculiar way when a bat flies into the room, then the bat, for some unaccountable reason, 

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swoops down, and the cat pounces on it and kills it. 
When I got home I found Miss May Branch [[strikethrough]] had co [[/strikethrough]] was there. Dick was also downstairs. We had quite a nice visit and chat and she said for us to be sure to look up her brother-in-law, Lawrence Graves, in St. Kitts. 
In the evening I went upstairs early so as to do a little packing, also some reading. 
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Spent most of the day packing. Our trunk left at 3 o'clock. I went to town to see some stamps Miss Gonsalves had for sale - bought some. She also has the 2/6 & 5/ of the Tercentenary, which she will sell for 25/
Had an argument with the P.O. over sending [[strikethrough]] me a [[/strikethrough]] our packages on board the "Nerissa". They had said they would, and then they phoned me and said that since we were going to St. Kitts they would have to send the packages by mail. I said they could wait until Dick went down tomorrow. 
Mrs Maginley came by but