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all together; Dr. Bugher from Bogota going back with 

 thousands of hypodermic needles to inoculate the peo- 

 ple there against yellow fever, etc.; a tea planter from 

 Assam living on $50.00 a month with ^2000 sterling 

 frozen in New York. 



Crash! ! I hear a big branch fall and Sands calls up 

 from below to say it's an overloaded Haden mango 

 branch. So we inill have green mango pie for dinner 

 tonight — don't you want a slice? Loomis is in Wash- 

 ington but Sis and Jimmie and Alarjorie are helping 

 on the mango crop here and also cross pollinating the 

 Pochote flowers at 9 p.m. by flashlight. 



We use the fancy salts every morning and so have 

 a different tg^ dish each time! 



Mangoes will come along soon now. They aren't 

 quite ripe yet. 



A funny thing happened June 30th. The censor 

 called up and asked me, "Have you any relatives in 

 Panama?" *'Yes, indeed," I said, " a son Graham Bell 

 and his wife and baby, and a daughter, Nancy Bell 

 Bates." "Have you no other relatives? Do you know 

 of any other David Fairchild?" he asked. I said, "Well, 

 to tell you the truth, I thought when I came to the 

 telephone that my son might have cabled me that a 

 new baby boy had arrived and that his name was 

 'David Fairchild,' and that the phone call was to take 

 the cable message." The censor laughed and hung up. 



An hour or two later came the cable from Graham, 

 addressed to me: "David arrived safely and well. 

 Graham." 



The poor censor was puzzled and thought he had 



