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Conger Reynolds correspondence, September 1918
1918-09-01 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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Meanwhile it is very pleasant to see what they look like and what their show places are like, and to see my sweetheart and mother. You certainly done me a big favor chile when you sent them views. I was furious when I read your letter of July 27 telling about your joy-rides with the priest and various other men including that blankety-blank Irishman, whom I might like if you didn't rave about him in every letter m. or l. I stamped and cursed and vowed I'd shoot Eddie at sight, and so on. Then I reflected and decided I'd have to submit peace-fully like the poor old hen-pecked (ouch! now you quit throwin' things!) husband that I am. I am too far away to make a fuss with anybody but the kaiser. You see I didn't know about Eddie until a month after he'd been toting you around in his go-cart. And another month will pass before I can make my awful wrath known, by which time no doubt some other old school-mate will have replaced Eddie. "Odeer,odeer," as Krazy Kats says. I certainly am terribly abused. Your recent letters make it plain to me that I was too early in my estimate of the date when you would
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Meanwhile it is very pleasant to see what they look like and what their show places are like, and to see my sweetheart and mother. You certainly done me a big favor chile when you sent them views. I was furious when I read your letter of July 27 telling about your joy-rides with the priest and various other men including that blankety-blank Irishman, whom I might like if you didn't rave about him in every letter m. or l. I stamped and cursed and vowed I'd shoot Eddie at sight, and so on. Then I reflected and decided I'd have to submit peace-fully like the poor old hen-pecked (ouch! now you quit throwin' things!) husband that I am. I am too far away to make a fuss with anybody but the kaiser. You see I didn't know about Eddie until a month after he'd been toting you around in his go-cart. And another month will pass before I can make my awful wrath known, by which time no doubt some other old school-mate will have replaced Eddie. "Odeer,odeer," as Krazy Kats says. I certainly am terribly abused. Your recent letters make it plain to me that I was too early in my estimate of the date when you would
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