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DIAMONDS TO SIT ON

that happened to me to-day. As I was admiring the peacefulness of the River Don and was lost in thought future happiness, a wind suddenly rose and swept the hat off my head. It was the hat you had borrowed for me from your brother, the baker. It feU mto the river and that was the last I saw of it Here was Mother expense, for I had to buy an English cap, which cost me two roubles and thirty copecks Mind you don t tell your brother, the baker, about this, tell him I am in Voronezh. T are a great nuisance to me here. I wash them m the evening and in the morning, if they are not dry, I have to put them on damp. But it is really quite pleasant in the present heat. ‘ I kiss you. ‘ Your devoted husband

‘ Theodore’