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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918

1918-06-27 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 3

needn't be so shocked.  I didn't teach it to him, but we read a story the night before, and that expression was squeezed in about every two lines. The boys had so much fun over it that I suppose that is how the Baby remembered it. 
I had a card from Lee Lewis this A.M. and he said that he tho't I'd like to know that it was so hot at Nevada that the walk - no, the pavement leading out to Cottey had "swelled up and busted."  I don't see why something like that couldn't have happened while I was there.  Now that I've left there, and have seen a street car, a tall building, and the steam -keers, that little old pavement affair doesn't count, but goodness!  In Nevada that would have been a real event, (just as the burial of Senator Stone gave us a holiday)
Now that this Sammy Backer stunt

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needn't be so shocked. I didn't teach it to him, but we read a story the night before, and that expression was squeezed in about every two lines. The boys had so much fun over it that I suppose that is how the Baby remembered it. I had a card from Lee Lewis this A.M. and he said that he tho't I'd like to know that it was so hot at Nevada that the walk - no, the pavement leading out to Cottey had "swelled up and busted." I don't see why something like that couldn't have happened while I was there. Now that I've left there, and have seen a street car, a tall building, and the steam -keers, that little old pavement affair doesn't count, but goodness! In Nevada that would have been a real event, (just as the burial of Senator Stone gave us a holiday) Now that this Sammy Backer stunt