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[Page 18]

miserable present for, after all, that is the state with which a "diary" is concerned if one may dignify this scrawl by the name of diary.
The black ants proved themselves white elephants in a way – I mean I need never have worried about them at all. I think the rat, in whose hole they established themselves put in the bailifs, anyway they seem to have done a moonlight flit.
My second package arrived from Khalil Gbrahim Saffi to my great joy the other day; & I forthwith despatched a fifty note with a long letter of counsel & guidance – in French of course – which will probably make him chuckle.
They dropped four

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