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On my return I met men who had been to tennis & to cricket & to that awful form of amusement & waste of time & temper – talking to young women & their mamas - I suppose its all right but I cant stand that in a new land with a wealth of natural objects all around me – many of the men loaf up to the Pacific hotel have drinks or aft tea & sit & smoke till its time to return to the ship & they think that jolly & quite enough exercise - Well give me the strenuous battler at tennis or cricket – the man who does somewhat & the woman who enthuses & tries to do & always succeeds too in doing things - Well – well - There's no venomous snakes in Fiji I am told & that shows perhaps why 'ricky ticky' has his attentions so directed to birds - Do you remember our 1st Cup at Flemington - I do – well – Chambers was there – as jolly as theyre made - Judge Molesworth gave a lunch & we had a ripping day - It's a long while ago is it not?
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