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3. decent condition, & be of some help, & be enjoyed. I managed to get to a wholesaler & I had Ben with me - but they seemed to be darned expensive - 9/6 for the 5 lbs. It seems a shocking price - but then they have come from California, so perhaps that is why. The people in the shop were real----. Talk of exact weights - well! He took out one prune, deliberately, in order to make it balance exactly - the same procedure with the apricots. Ben put the prune back in the paper bag., he looked really browned off. Then there was a big argument about how much it was going to cost. The sum was a little complicated, kilos & grams having been converted into lbs & ozs in order to give me my lb parcel, & then having to be converted back in order to arrive at the price. Everybody behind the counter was in it, & the customers joined in too. And finally, they reached it - to the nearest unit which is 1/4d. They are funny people these Jews -seems to be unavoidable for them to be anything other than 100% businesslike& exact & yet, when all this was over, the man got hold of a good cardboard box & lots of string - in spite of me saying never mind.

Before all this, I had been to see the Jewish Soldiers Welfare Committee, & they promised me for the Coy, a wireless set, a drum, & to go halves in a second hand piano. The wireless & the drum I bought this morning, & they are looking for a piano, & then spent £50 of the Coy