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bit of flannel next the skin" & "Jamie's
joined the Volunteers". We went to the
Hippodrome pantomime. I wish the
Mhor could have seen it. It is really
a fine spectacle & the performing seals
are immense. On Thursday night
Lewis Ferguson came in & sat
a long time. Yesterday morning
Cubby Medd turned up for breakfast,
having come from Alnwick Castle
where he seems to have had a
pretty poor time, being made to
hunt when was afraid & taken
to balls which he hated. On
Monday I dine with the Johnston-Douglasses,
on Thursday with the Russells &
on Friday with the Stracheys in their