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June 9th
Jisr Benat Yakub
Dear Mick
My last letter to you was dated May 7th instead of June 7th.
Yesterday was devoted to finishing my small picture of Tiberius & killing a snake on the way back to Semakh. The sketch I think will please you, the snake would not neither would the skin. Sketch 8 in. by 4 in. Snake five feet six & ½ inches a coppery dangerous looking creature which took 3 bullets to settle as he was well [indecipherable] between rocks down by the beach or shore of Gallilee. A bullet is better than a brazen image in these cases. Referring to miracles I took a dive off the little wooden pier by Semakh this morning entirely failing to realize that I am still marked hospital leave and came out feeling very fit. Of course I did no stunts just kept afloat.