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Whittingehame
Prestonkirk
Scotland

Telegrams: Prestonkirk.
Railway Station: East Linton, N.B.Ry.

1st moment that Dickson McCunn
came in to the scene I felt my audience
gripped. The reading has lasted us 6 nights.
We meant to keep the last two chaps.
to cheer us up Sunday evening before
& after family prayers - but we could'nt.
Aunt Nora who had the most
immaculately regular & punctual
life, & has trained herself not to express
exaggerated emotion about anything
on earth, for the last three nights has
been leaning eagerly forward in her
chair & has 'clamoured' for another
chap: when I proposed stopping,
and last night it was she who
said I must finish the book there
& then tho' it was long past the
orthodox going to be bed hour. During the