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Ida Chamness writings on travel and religion, 1927-1938
1927-04-13 Page 12
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- 12 - ed of red brick and had no porches. I wanted to say that the streams here (very unlike ours in America) had no high banks, but looked as tho they might have been very neatly cut out with straight sides and the grass growing right up to the edges. When we arrived in Birmingham we were pleased to see our friend Edmund Hatcher there to meet us. He had a taxi all ready to take us to the pretty, handy bungalo which he had rented for us in Bournville. I was not allowed to unwrap until mamma had a hot fire built up in the fireplace. In the meanwhile Edmund Hatcher was busy showing Georgetta where things were, and he had provided a nice list of groceries for us to start with, and told us to buy all we needed at the grocery store and meat shop and charge it to him. We had the milk man stop and leave milk for us every day, which was hauled in two wheeled carts. We also bot vegetables of a woman who brot them to our door; and when in need of coal I would sit and watch for the coal wagon, then whistle for Georgetta; and she went running accross
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- 12 - ed of red brick and had no porches. I wanted to say that the streams here (very unlike ours in America) had no high banks, but looked as tho they might have been very neatly cut out with straight sides and the grass growing right up to the edges. When we arrived in Birmingham we were pleased to see our friend Edmund Hatcher there to meet us. He had a taxi all ready to take us to the pretty, handy bungalo which he had rented for us in Bournville. I was not allowed to unwrap until mamma had a hot fire built up in the fireplace. In the meanwhile Edmund Hatcher was busy showing Georgetta where things were, and he had provided a nice list of groceries for us to start with, and told us to buy all we needed at the grocery store and meat shop and charge it to him. We had the milk man stop and leave milk for us every day, which was hauled in two wheeled carts. We also bot vegetables of a woman who brot them to our door; and when in need of coal I would sit and watch for the coal wagon, then whistle for Georgetta; and she went running accross
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