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Sun. Oct. 23
[N.D.]
Dear Irene,----
I have just finished reading thru [sic] of your letters which you have written to me since school began, and they were all fines [sic] ones, and long too, and yet I believe I have only answered one of them. I am awfully sorry I have not had time to answer all your letters promptly, and with long answers, but I think I am going to have more time after mid-term is over. The exams. come at the beginning of November. As it is, I can’t write you a real long letter today.
Your trip down into Kentucky must have been great. I thought Janet’s people would treat you royally. I am sorry the horse is too big for you, that means its [sic] too big for me, but a little thing like that won’t keep us from riding him much. I had hoped Papa would get two, so that we could go out together. But we must not expect too much of a good thing.
Oh yes, Irene, do send my kodak off to me we right away as I shall want it if I go up to the International Aviation Meet on Long Island this week. I am going to strike Doc Mac tomorrow night for a permit to go to N.Y. to the Meet Friday morning noon with his son Paul and return Saturday night. I only miss three recitations, can make them up before hand, and if Paul doesn’t stay at some hotel over night [sic], if he is going to stay with relatives, I could stay with Uncle Raymond. Let Mamma see this and have her write right away about it. And also have her send on some money. She might as well send a hundred for I’ll have to use 45 of it right away in a winter suit.
I wish you would send my glider pictures along when you send the kodak.
A tennis tournament started about two weeks ago with some fifty fellows in it, and by some streak of luck, I stayed in it until there were only six fellows left, and then I got put out. If I had won that match I would have been on the school team, and I think that the thought of the big stake I was playing for made me nervous, for I played the fellow awfully even the first set, only had to win one point once to win the set, but I didn’t do it, lost the set 5-7 and then just went all to pieces. He won the second set 6-1.
Last night before supper in coming to my room from the shower bath, I saw a mouse running along the hall. I threw my towel at him, and being a big bath towel, it didn’t miss him and once that I had him under it, I was easily able to get my hands on him. I carried him to my room, tied a string about his leg, and tied him up on top of my dresser, while I got dressed. He looked awfully cute running around inquisitively on top of my dresser. He would stand up on his hind legs, or sit on them, just like a squirrel does, and look all around. I took him down to dinn dinner with me and let him loose about the middle of the meal, but he didn’t head for the matron so there wasn’t much of a commotion. I would have given anything to have seen the mouse run for her table and to have watched her get up on her chair. As it was, some fellows caught hold of the string trailing after it, and carried it out the dining room.
Well, I must close. I havent [sic] time to write Mamma to day [sic] so be sure to tell her about writing permission to go to N.Y. and about sending the money
Your loving brother
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