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29 I remember that was the year that "Parlez-moi d'Amor" was very popular. Dr. Stejneger and I waltzed to that. Henson: Yes, now is he the one did a mazurka? Mann: Probably. Henson: One of them did. Mann: We used to go to the Stejneger's for Christmas Eve dinner. Then they would take hands and dance around the Christmas tree, singing "Oh Tannenbaum, oh Tannenbaum." He would make a great ceremony out of opening packages. Their kitchen was in the basement their dining room on the first floor. . .oh, no, their dining room was on the second floor--dining room and living room. Anyway I know we spent a good deal of time on the second floor; that certainly is where the Christmas tree was. Dr. Stejneger would run up and down those stairs, bringing glasses of wine, or bottles of beer, or something. [Laughter] Henson: With no problem at all. Mann: No problem at all. He was very active and very well until just the last. Henson: He again was a very broad gauged scientist, wasn't he? Mann: Oh, yes. He was originally an ornithologist; that was his training in Norway. He came here and applied for a job as an ornithologist; and the Smithsonian or the Natural History Museum, I