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AUGUST 1 Thursday A letter from A's Mother with $50.00 for his birthday. Both to Huntington about 11, A having painted earlier. Got some shorts & white duck pants "against" his birthday. Ordered a Polo shirt. Got some chop suey & a Scribners & back to boat. After lunch I read Earnest Hemingway's serial in Ss. aloud, A back to paint I lying down. [[end page]] [[start page]] Friday AUGUST 2 Arthur's birthday - He to studio painting on Northport harbor sun rise, and a swell thing it is. I over - stuffed and roasted a small chicken - in which we placed a small candle when served. Jake "dolled" up in Mr Woolworth's red paper ware. As we finished dinner Holly in wanting us to go to movie - a good one -from Hank & John's accents. I went, A wanting to work on a second painting of n.p.h.s. In evening to dinner with Raleighs Back at 9.30 to Y.C. changed clothes & to [[?]] to bed. I made A orange neck tie, got him a white bathing top some drills & a scrub brush.