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Conger Reynolds correspondence, June 1918
1918-06-24 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 4
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He takes the dog by the hind legs and walks him all around the house playing wheel-barrow with him. Today a letter came from Juliette, and was nice and chummy, just as all of her letters are. She is such a dear to me. It will be so nice to know them all, but I'm skeered a little of the first meeting. I'm so afraid they'll be expecting such an ideal woman because they know how fine their son is, and in such case there will be an awful awakening. The baby just sneaked out of bed and came downstairs in his nightie. He has a knife and is pretending to shoot the birds on my kimono with it. More excitement! Martha just let the enclosed note downstairs on the end of a cord. You can see how completely you own the household. Philip and Emerson are big boys, ten and eleven, I think, and yet they are the most innocent boys I ever saw. Today they were discussing how we would decide who was Mother to a baby that would be found in bed with two women. Then they became really worried about it, and Philip said, "Mama, suppose we should find a baby in bed with
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He takes the dog by the hind legs and walks him all around the house playing wheel-barrow with him. Today a letter came from Juliette, and was nice and chummy, just as all of her letters are. She is such a dear to me. It will be so nice to know them all, but I'm skeered a little of the first meeting. I'm so afraid they'll be expecting such an ideal woman because they know how fine their son is, and in such case there will be an awful awakening. The baby just sneaked out of bed and came downstairs in his nightie. He has a knife and is pretending to shoot the birds on my kimono with it. More excitement! Martha just let the enclosed note downstairs on the end of a cord. You can see how completely you own the household. Philip and Emerson are big boys, ten and eleven, I think, and yet they are the most innocent boys I ever saw. Today they were discussing how we would decide who was Mother to a baby that would be found in bed with two women. Then they became really worried about it, and Philip said, "Mama, suppose we should find a baby in bed with
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