produced a bottle of the "real thing" and given him a couple of hookers. When we first saw him he was coming out of Alfred Smith's house so I suppose that was the scene of the party. This is the first Saturday I have been down town at night for a long time and of course Monday is a holiday but it looks to me as if ther Prohibitionists, give a great deal of credit to Prohibition, which really belongs to high prices for booze and that about the only ones who benefit much from it are the bootleggers. Cloudy and very cold wind.

Sunday May 23rd

Except for finishng cutting the lawn and levelling up a step that marj. made fore the side door out of an old window casing that came with the rubbish I got at Mrs. Woodson's last fall I kept the sabbath in the most approved style. Harry B. Gay & I took a stroll down through the fklats and gathered a nic ebunch if violets which are thin=ck in the oasture and old meadows, try=ue, we were on our way to th corner to get the cream can which i forgot last night but we were very leisurely about it and paid the Lampkinsd a short call while we were on our way. We