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A nice friendly letter. I like Fred's jokes.
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Dondi Jan. 28 1927.
Dear Miss Hosking:
I have located my stethoscope so you are exonerated. We did not understand from your explanation to Miss Hurlbut, that the carriers had returned on their own volition. I was over at the train yesterday but found it light. Next Sunday perhaps it will be groaning under the weight of the ouzombe [???].
In one of those crossword puzzles a flirt was defined as a trouble hunter. Try that on Mac. (Not the flirting.) I am sorry about that Sunday fudge - any time you have contraband made on Sunday I am willing to be the scapegoat. The days of the week look alike to me. I would not eat anything on Sunday that had spoiled on Saturday.
Your explanation of your changed luck at "Queen Lil" is not clear to me. At both of the games you received "Bobby's" discards and you discarded to me. The way you state it is rather ambiguous - "I considered that it was because Bobby was giving me her discards instead of yourself." Whom did she give you? Who are her discards? I never qualified.
As to the "Chimes" Miss Minto has not asked me to write anything and I would not write if she did. My pen is not like yours. It never writes for publication and ever since it went to the Nurses Commencement at the Deaconess Hospital it has had a habit of dropping ink when I take it near a chart or write or write any sort of instructions or letters to nurses. If I am a Sheik it is a Sheba.
yours
FE Stokey
P.S. No stamps in stock and Bill is still at the Coast.
Dear Miss Hosking:
I have located my stethoscope so you are exonerated. We did not understand from your explanation to Miss Hurlbut, that the carriers had returned on their own volition. I was over at the train yesterday but found it light. Next Sunday perhaps it will be groaning under the weight of the ouzombe [???].
In one of those crossword puzzles a flirt was defined as a trouble hunter. Try that on Mac. (Not the flirting.) I am sorry about that Sunday fudge - any time you have contraband made on Sunday I am willing to be the scapegoat. The days of the week look alike to me. I would not eat anything on Sunday that had spoiled on Saturday.
Your explanation of your changed luck at "Queen Lil" is not clear to me. At both of the games you received "Bobby's" discards and you discarded to me. The way you state it is rather ambiguous - "I considered that it was because Bobby was giving me her discards instead of yourself." Whom did she give you? Who are her discards? I never qualified.
As to the "Chimes" Miss Minto has not asked me to write anything and I would not write if she did. My pen is not like yours. It never writes for publication and ever since it went to the Nurses Commencement at the Deaconess Hospital it has had a habit of dropping ink when I take it near a chart or write or write any sort of instructions or letters to nurses. If I am a Sheik it is a Sheba.
yours
FE Stokey
P.S. No stamps in stock and Bill is still at the Coast.
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1.
I have located my stethoscope so you are exonerated.
Fred had thought he must have left it behind in Chissamba.
1927-01-25 LETTER FROM SIBYL TO FRED
Mac has looked for the stethoscope but has not succeeded in locating it yet.
2.
We did not understand from your explanation to Miss Hurlbut, that the carriers had returned on their own volition.
Miss Hurlbut is Mary Hurlbut, a missionary teacher stationed in Dondi.
3.
Next Sunday perhaps it will be groaning under the weight of the ouzombe [???].
Ouzombe, or however it's spelled, looks as though it might be an Umbundu word, so I looked for it in my little Umbundu dictionary, trying combinations of o/u and z/s, but didn't find anything. I live in hope that someday I'll find something useful in that dictionary, but it hasn't happened yet.
4.
Try that on Mac.
As with Sibyl's letter, I wonder if Mac is Mr. McAllester.
1927-01-25 LETTER FROM SIBYL TO FRED
5.
Your explanation of your changed luck at "Queen Lil" is not clear to me. At both of the games you received "Bobby's" discards and you discarded to me.
It sounds as though Queen Lil is a card game, but googling got me nothing useful. Given the talk about passing discards, I'm wondering if it's another name for Hearts.
And I think that "Bobby" is what Sibyl, but not Fred, calls Mrs. McAllester.
6.
As to the "Chimes" Miss Minto has not asked me to write anything
I'm trying to figure out if I've come across a periodical named Chimes, but I can't remember.
7.
If I am a Sheik it is a Sheba.
Sheik/Sheba: 20s slang for boyfriend/girlfriend. It seems to me that they talk about sheiks in Cheaper By the Dozen.
When I googled, it mentioned a song, and so I listened to Louis Armstrong performing the 1924 song Everybody Loves My Baby, whose lyrics include the following lines:
She’s got a form like Venus, honest, I ain`t talking Greek
No one can come between us
She`s my Sheba, I’m her Sheik.
8.
P.S. No stamps in stock and Bill is still at the Coast.
I do not think that these two bits of information are related, because I think that Bill is a cat, though I have no idea why he might be at the Coast. So maybe Fred was just remembering a couple of things from Sibyl that he had forgotten to answer.
I have located my stethoscope so you are exonerated.
Fred had thought he must have left it behind in Chissamba.
1927-01-25 LETTER FROM SIBYL TO FRED
Mac has looked for the stethoscope but has not succeeded in locating it yet.
2.
We did not understand from your explanation to Miss Hurlbut, that the carriers had returned on their own volition.
Miss Hurlbut is Mary Hurlbut, a missionary teacher stationed in Dondi.
3.
Next Sunday perhaps it will be groaning under the weight of the ouzombe [???].
Ouzombe, or however it's spelled, looks as though it might be an Umbundu word, so I looked for it in my little Umbundu dictionary, trying combinations of o/u and z/s, but didn't find anything. I live in hope that someday I'll find something useful in that dictionary, but it hasn't happened yet.
4.
Try that on Mac.
As with Sibyl's letter, I wonder if Mac is Mr. McAllester.
1927-01-25 LETTER FROM SIBYL TO FRED
5.
Your explanation of your changed luck at "Queen Lil" is not clear to me. At both of the games you received "Bobby's" discards and you discarded to me.
It sounds as though Queen Lil is a card game, but googling got me nothing useful. Given the talk about passing discards, I'm wondering if it's another name for Hearts.
And I think that "Bobby" is what Sibyl, but not Fred, calls Mrs. McAllester.
6.
As to the "Chimes" Miss Minto has not asked me to write anything
I'm trying to figure out if I've come across a periodical named Chimes, but I can't remember.
7.
If I am a Sheik it is a Sheba.
Sheik/Sheba: 20s slang for boyfriend/girlfriend. It seems to me that they talk about sheiks in Cheaper By the Dozen.
When I googled, it mentioned a song, and so I listened to Louis Armstrong performing the 1924 song Everybody Loves My Baby, whose lyrics include the following lines:
She’s got a form like Venus, honest, I ain`t talking Greek
No one can come between us
She`s my Sheba, I’m her Sheik.
8.
P.S. No stamps in stock and Bill is still at the Coast.
I do not think that these two bits of information are related, because I think that Bill is a cat, though I have no idea why he might be at the Coast. So maybe Fred was just remembering a couple of things from Sibyl that he had forgotten to answer.
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