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tree across the river (about 30 ft away) yesterday, the yellow billed.  They were making a racket like parrots.
     I have 2 packages of dried plants sewed up in bags, and shall leave them here with the [[insertion]] ^ semi- [[/insertion]] intelligent "hotel" keeper to avoid wettings enroute - my trunk isn't water-tight.  My suitcase with clothes got wet but that didn't bother me.  I got back in time for bath [[insertion]] ^ today [[/insertion]] (in small basin) and change of clothes. My feet have been so soaked for a week they feel delightfully comfortable in dry stockings and shoes.  It is past 9, but a Victrola is doing its awfulest with scratched jazz records and my room is not partitioned to the ceiling, so I couldn't sleep - hence this long letter.