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May 23 - B.A.

     We awoke this morning to find the first rainthat we have seen falling lazily over B.A. As we had been invited to an asado at the Zoo we rather expected a telephone call during the morning to tell us that the picnic had been called off. Failing to hear from Dr. Homberg, we went out to the Zoo at one o'clock, and eventually the other guests, and even our host, showed up. Both Botana's sons were present, the one called Beans whom we met the other day, and another one who speaks very g od English, having been to the school of journalism at theUniversity of Missouri.

     The asado was prepared outdoors, in spite of the rain! Back of the restaurant is a vine-covered arbor, and there a huge fire, or rather of series of fires were glowing, each one surrounded by carcases. The first course was chincilines (braided intestines of cow) and other delicacies, such as kidneys and thyroid glands, with sausages. Then came a whole roast kid, then a haunch of beef, then half a lamb, then several roast chickens. bread and butter and lettuce salad, coffee and fruit completed the meal; certainly the Argentines are great meat e ters. This really was delicious, however, for the various meats, being roasted on spits over a charcoal fire, had a wonderful flavor.

     We had asked Dr. and Mrs. Henry to have dinner with us. We unfortunately had little appetite, but we all wentover to Maxim's and enjoyed the evening.

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     Bill went shopping for birds with Dr. Saporiti of the Zoo, z young man who knows the value of animals. Bill came back very much cheered, having found lots of flamingoes, black-necked swans and otherthings he wanted, at reasonable prices. Saporiti had lunc with us at the hotel.

     In the evening Dr. Henry took us to the Farmyard Bar on Tucuman, a typically German place, with a loud brass band and a small dance floor. We had good beefsteak, and the band was please to play any selection we asked for, notably"Tri nk Trink" and "Denn muss du in Rhineland geboren sein." Later we went to the Jousten Hotel, where we fell in with a crowd of Irishmen - two of them being delegates to thePostal C ngress, oneof them a famous doctor in B.A. Bill said to theman who came from Dublin that the Dublin Museum was the worst [[crossout 1 letter]] labeled in the world, and the man took it as a personal insult, and branched forth into a long explanation of how poor Ireland was, how much more interested in the present than in the past, etc. - all because we had been interested in the exhibit last summer and wanted to know more about it.

     After all the German music we asked for some Irish airs from the orchestra, which was very obliging. Then I suggested tha they play "The Sidealks of New York." They didn't seem to know it, andBill hummed it for them - whereupon they broke out into "Daisy, [[handwritten over "D"]] Saisy, give me your answer true."

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