gill, Douglas E , 
193T 
Soon after returning to the hotel I started skinning a young Noddy. The 
skin kept tearing, and after k hours I was practically tearing my hair out. 
I •was nearly in a frenzy at the end and hurriedly finished the bird, I walked 
around the block to cool off, and had a rum and soda when I got back. I 
started another Noddy and was rapidly becoming impatient with that bird too. 
When I found I had tied my wings with one wing twisted I exploded and smashed 
the bird with try fist. It didn't hurt it fortunately so I corrected the 
problem and finished at long last. It was pretty decent. I hit the sack 
on edge. 
16 August 1964 : I heard Larry straightening things up and repacking the 
birds in the cooler with ice in the morning but was too tired to get up. I 
finally did at 10J0 again. I spent the morning and early afternoon writing 
a letter, a reply to Fred's letter. At 2:50 I started di inning young Sooties 
I finished my first in just over two hours. I was careful and patient, 
everything went well and it turned out to be a half decent skin. I had 
dinner then at the Colonial House after fruitlessly looking for a new place 
to eat on the main drag. A set of three French girls dressed in tight 
sweaters sat at the next table and it was interesting to hear them converse 
in French, When I returned I turned on the radio and recognized Mahler. So 
I sat and listened to and enjoyed his Pas lied ban der Ecder . Iarry and I 
argued about the impression we were making on other people, lie thought we 
were being laughed at by all, and I thought things were ok. By 1900 we 
started skinning again, and I finished another young Sooty in 1 hour 50 
minutes. The next bird took 2 hours and about 30 minutes. Both came out 
