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quarters. The hotel seems almost empty on account of summer season. For the first time since our trip we are on the "European plan". [[red underline]] This is Nina's 19th [[/red underline]] birthday. She has been raving about [[red underline]] lobsters [[/red underline]] ever since we entered Maine. Here she ordered lobster and got enough for four. Other dishes , ordered "per portion" were similar. We drove in a horse carriage to see a moving picture: "The Island of Regeneration". then walked back to the hotel thru Boston's empty streets by 11 P.M. Again a good night's sleep.
July 23. (Friday) . Breakfast at 7. A.M. My bill here is only about $17 [[underlined]] 00 [[/underlined]]. including room with bath room for our chauffeur.
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Left at about 7 [[underlined]] 45 [[/underlined]] A.M. Again a splendid day, not too warm. An excellent boulevard along Commonwealth Ave thru the pretty section of [[red underline]] Brookline [[/red underline]], then over [[red underline]] Auburndale,  Weston [[/red underline]] etc. along this excellent [[red underline]] Massachusetts [[/red underline]] State road. Flawless and at least as good and [[red underline]] better than the best European roads we found in 1906 during our tours thru Europe [[/red underline]]. Made good time on these roads. Landscape, pretty, restful and different villages and towns seem prosperous, clean and well cared for. Very different from the unsettled condition of some of the neighboring [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] towns of New York. [[red underline]] This drive is a real delight. [[/red underline]] drove for the first hundred