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 threw them on the table, and finally I managed to get him to take them entirely and I left. We coulkdn't prevail on him though tp partake of a little of the "Seagrams" coloured with saxcramental eine which our hostess doled out ot each if us, so Clare Deal and I drank his portion betweeen us.We hadn't been playing long when there 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 went out to see what was going on in the kitchen. 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 side by side but he had got the wrong one. Carl escorted me into the pantry where he assured me a "lady wanted to see me" and