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pantry if we get huxig up at the dock, Saturday Is almost as bad. All 
banks and government offices close, on Sattirday afternoons . This whole 
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sitimtion has given rise to stirring times for people who pull in on a 
weekend. We came on Saturday, = This meant that any traffic with tli® 
governBsent jmist be out of the way by noon. All went well -• though at 
the usual emil'a pace — with the baggage checkingj (a new wrinkle: 
we must post a ten dollar bond that we would bring our fox terrier puppy 
out again with us in August) . After rushing uptown to the steMushlp 
company for the car papers, back again in another direction for freight 
receipt, the way appeared to be clear until the last official decided 
that I must make a five hundred dollar cash deposit on the automobile. 
It was eleven forty -five, ay traveler's checks were not sufficient to 
cover, I had no account in ary of the bardts. This is where the scrautoling 
began. After some fast legwork I fom^ a friend who called the bank to 
assure them that if I opened an account my checks would not bounce. The 
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bank kindly remained open for a few extra minutes to put the transaction 
on paper, the bond went to the customs people, the final signature went 
Into the final customs "paper, and presto, we were ini But it had been a 
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near thing, I had expected to spend the wekend at Lyford with the car 
locked up on the docks. 
The other crises were routine: an inch of water on the floor of the 
rented thatched-roof house — (because it had been raining and the man who 
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had been sending' the thatch had left it with gaping holes)} an automobile 
engine that for no imderstandable reason began clattering suddenly (it had 
been completely overhauled before leaving Texas) and turned out to need a 
