how but it is against his principles (or else Essie won't let him) to play cards.

However, it didn't seem to trouble his conscience any to play as long as I held the cards and threww them on the table, and finally I managed to et hom to take them w=entirly and I left. We coulkdn't prevail on him though tp partake of a little of the "Seagrams" coloured with saxcramental eine which our histess dole dout ot each if us, so Clare Deal and I sdrank his po=rtion betweeen us.We hadn't been playing long when tetre was a terrific racket, guns & shouting without and Jack's dog barling within. Jack went to the fdoor and oresently the kitchen was filled with about forty fishermen. They just stayed long ebnough to consime all the sandwichs that Jack ha doregpared for us. After I got tired tired of hearts & spades, I wen tout to see what was going on in the kitchwen. I found Cecil (who hasjoined the band as a small drummer) and Harry Moon replenishing the sandwich supply, Carl Coleman shaking hands with the digs tail and George Hallam running around with a cup of hot water wanting to know where the cold water tap was, they were sisde by side but he had got the wrong one. Carl escorted me into the pantrywhere he assured me a "lady wanted to see me" and