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here some years, said not since they were 1st
opened.

August 31, 1922 - Thursday

The big cupboard still claiming my attention;
the 7th S. girl helped quite awhile today or else I could-
n't [couldn't] have made as much progress as I did. Yes. was
principally pulling out, throwing away, & assorting;
today the two latter go on apace, & also putting back
to a certain extent, but it seems to me I have a
doz. interruptions. Had notebooks to correct - which
takes an hr. or more. Gave my B. class their written
lesson on Mon.; the papers not at all satisfactory
so after taking up their mistakes with them on
Tues., gave them practically the same thing
over yesterday, and they of course did better this
time. So we've left Miss S's book; I hope it did
them some good, & have returned to Mr. Speers. I
look over all sorts of junk that I take over to my room
every aft., much of it to bring back, sorted as nearly
as can be, next a.m. Have found the flat sticks for laying, &
some coloured ones for counting & building, about a
dozen bodkins, broken pieces of slate pencils, odd
bits of chalk, nails, tacks (I've put the last two, togeth-
er [together] with the bodkins, into a small yellow tin box with
a hinged lid), rusty needles, pins & still pens - all of
which I promptly threw away, buttons, a piece of
candle, & several of sealing wax; a broken glass
dish which has been joined together after the rough
fashion of the country, several small baskets, some
miniature tin & granite utensils, paper flowers, old
fan, bunch of string, the bottoms of several old box-

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es [boxes], pasteboard, wood & tin; an Amer. pencil box,
and more to follow on the morrow.

September 1, 1922 - Friday

Began on the twin of the preceding, which occu-
pies [occupies] the east wall, this morning; not jammed
as full as the other one, so it won't be quite such a bad
job. There was a lot of Burmese pottery, white wooden
drawing models, all of which I placed on the bottom
shelf; with chunks of wood - the biggest of which
proved to be teak - native boat with oars, 3 monkeys,
china vase, small metal gong, broken hour glass, empty
spools, box of drawing designs, large bivalve wired to-
gether [together]; more rocks, coral, pictures, etc; and a no. of
the object lessons of Eng. manufacture. Worked very
late trying to get things back, after having to haul them all
out; put all pottery on 3rd shelf - it will make a fair
display - as I'm planning to have all nat'l specimens on
the w. side & manufactured ones on this. Found several
bottles, from which all alcohol has long since evaporat-
ed [evaporated], containing sea-horse, bat, small snake, etc. Old
box filled with the eaten & broken remains of a small
deer foot, beetles, buggs, etc., & the charts of five poison-
ous [poisonous] native snakes, the 7th S. girl scaring Ma N. with
one of them. Very tired this aft., so lay down again for a-
while [awhile] before dinner; my arms & shoulders weak &
sore again the same as after I had handled the heavy
books so continuously after straightening out the
library. Lots of stuff here to go over the wk-end. Was
about to forget to mention the large piece of cowhide
I found - much of the hair eaten off; an old
spoon, two mussel shells with buttons cut out, a box of de-
crepit [decrepit] dolls, sans hair, eyes, legs, etc. - truly a motley col-
lection [collection]. Didn't get to write letters or even postcards these for