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soon forget it, to which he answered "Oh no," I [[red underline]] have a way of remembering names [[/red underline]] for instance when I think of your name I shall think of [[red underline]] Bakelite." [[/red underline]] I did not spoil this episode by asking him what [[red underline]] bakelite [[/red underline]] was, nor tell him my connections with [[red underline]] bakelite [[/red underline]]. He was however smoking a pipe with a [[red underline]] bakelite [[/red underline]] bit.
At Elizabethtown, instead of taking direct route to Westport went over Wadham's Falls along [[red underline]] Bouquet River [[/red underline]] and took simple lunch on shore. Sardines and a bottle of Yonkers Ale, and some biscuits. Then [[strikethrough]] devio [[/strikethrough]] deviated so as to explore shore along [[red underline]] Lake Champlain [[/red underline]]
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Went into a beautiful natural plot of landed estate. [[strikethrough]] The one [[/strikethrough]] till close edge of [[red underline]] Lake Champlain [[/red underline]]. Man in charge followed me, we entered into conversation, his son was in the [[strikethrough]] Ase [[/strikethrough]] American Expenditionary Forces in France. [[red underline]] makes us all feel kin.- [[/red underline]] Tells me the estate of several hundred acres on which I am is owned by Mr. Lee of [[red underline]] Lee, Higginson & Co Brothers in [[/red underline]] Boston
Then drove further along rather poor road to Essex.  Now and then pretty glimpses of the Lake.  Thunderclouds then squall and rainstorm. Drove in a garage for shelter and for renewing gasoline supply. A [[red underline]] farmer [[/red underline]] with his Ford for repairs tells [[red underline]] me his son in France with [[/red underline]]