World War I Collection

in a family way. Ah yah — them was the good old days — let Marion tell you about them. Let him tell you of the famous night when the Harvard tumbling team defeated some other team in our gymnasium. How one tumbler made a remarkable twist leap in the air and quite unconsciously — I know no other word then "farted" — — so violently that all the ladies in the balconies said "what was that?" But their escorts blushed a royal Harvard crimson and muttered incoherently that they supposed he'd ripped his trunks. — What is the medical word for that, anyway —?[line drawn between "farted" and dash]

Be good — watch your health. give my regards to all the Bates - Sargents — also the Guthries and Miss Knox, the violinist — Mr. Ledoux — and the sexton if he is the one I used to know —

Sorry you had to stay so short a time. I hope we meet again very soon. Feel like quitting here already — too many girls and too much hypocrisy and suppersion. Drop me a line when you can. A school of porpoise is coasting up & down the surfline today and the seas are very high — wish I were a sea-gull. Love to you, Lesley Bates.