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Conger Reynolds correspondence, November 1918
1918-11-03 Daphne Reynolds to Conger Reynolds Page 5
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really how many we were. Malen got quite familiar with Ella and called her Dingbat, which worried him to death later when he discovered his error. We all blew horns and whistles and it's a wonder the "place wasn't pulled." We had it decorated without as well as within, tho, by ye sign of ye black cat, so I guess folks knew we weren't really being murdered. It was fun to watch them take a "leap in the dark." You know the stunt, of course. We had an old fashioned, very high lamp, a huge wash bowl of water, & several lighted candles in a line on the floor. One by one we admitted the company and told them they must jump over the mess. While I blindfolded them, and talked a lot of guff about holding up their costumes, etc., Mama quietly removed the stuff from the floor. There were some who evidently tho't I'd have the house burned down, because
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really how many we were. Malen got quite familiar with Ella and called her Dingbat, which worried him to death later when he discovered his error. We all blew horns and whistles and it's a wonder the "place wasn't pulled." We had it decorated without as well as within, tho, by ye sign of ye black cat, so I guess folks knew we weren't really being murdered. It was fun to watch them take a "leap in the dark." You know the stunt, of course. We had an old fashioned, very high lamp, a huge wash bowl of water, & several lighted candles in a line on the floor. One by one we admitted the company and told them they must jump over the mess. While I blindfolded them, and talked a lot of guff about holding up their costumes, etc., Mama quietly removed the stuff from the floor. There were some who evidently tho't I'd have the house burned down, because
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