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Conger Reynolds correspondence, August 1918

1918-08-22 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 4

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his prediction fulfilled. I haven't thanked you yet for the Ork. I now arise in my white cravat and do just that. The Ork is, as you say, a bewt, and I wouldn't trade him for a flying hippopotamus. I intend to pen him in my room and learn his song o'mornings in that time between the dark and daylight that is known as the shaving hour. A verse per blade it to be the schedule and with every swipe of the razor among the bristles a word of the classic song will be tucked away in my memory. I am glad you send the Ork instead of a man-o'-war bird because I shall have little trouble keeping his porringer supplied with what he always has in it while experience has
 
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