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38 [[strikethrough in top left margin]] [[symbol showing a circle topped by a cross]] [[/strikethrough]] $75.00 in "Ten-Cent" store and came home with big car filled with packages. [[red underline]] This Yachting gives me renewed interest in toys and playing! [[/red underline]] -- Old spirit [[red underline]] comes up. [[red underline]] So much the better. Aug 4.[[strikethrough]] Arri [[/strikethrough]] Meeting of [[red underline]] board of Directors. [[/red underline]] Many floods reported, delays of trains on account of violent rain storm. [[strikethrough]] It [[/strikethrough]] Only present [[red underline]] Mausolf, Foersterling, Creevey [[/red underline]] and myself. This is the record of sales by about $140. [[red underline]] Best month we ever had. [[/red underline]] Other good news is that [[red underline]] Nikolas [[/red underline]] has passed time limit for appeal. [[strikethrough]] After [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Before]] hearty lunch at Mouquin went to [[red underline]] Appel's Store [[/red underline]] in Fulton street to buy yachting [[red underline]] clothes, caps, rubber boots and oilskins [[/red underline]] in all $55.00 [[end page]] [[start page]] 39 [[symbol in top left margin showing a circle topped by a cross]] Then went to [[red underline]] Brooklyn. Paulus [[/red underline]] has started foundations for galvanized shed. Remained there all afternoon. Charge 4 hs. [[symbol in left margin showing a circle topped by a cross with annotation]] 4 hs [[/symbol and annotation]] Aug 5. Cool and bright weather. Almost cool enough for a fire. Hurriedly busy all morning dictating. Then to [[red underline]] Boat Club [[/red underline]] then afternoon to [[red underline]] Durkee [[/red underline]] to buy more supplies for [[red underline]] Cygnet. [[/red underline]] (About $40.00) Home with 4:44. In the evening [[red underline]] Celine, Nina and Edith Parsons [[/red underline]] all left for [[red underline]] George's Camp [[/red underline]] in Adirondacks and I spent quiet evening here enjoying the reading of Kendricks well written book on "Practical [[red underline]] sailing and Motor boating." [[/red underline]] By eleven o'clock I had [[red underline]] learned [[/red underline]] a lot of things [[red underline]] about yachting [[/red underline]] forgotten since many years. Aug 6. Nice bright cool weather, then again rain and lots of it. Planned with James