rifles full of flowers and their pivret hearts & wives & friends with them. They were loaded with presents & flowers. The decoration in some of the shop windows are not exactly calculated to cheer one. There are figures in deep mourning, hats trimmed with crepe etc. etc. Aug 27. Several people recd. letters from America. Toltie got one from Edith fe England. At a vestry meeting in eve. Thunder lightening & rain in p.m. Called on the Warrens. Aug 29. Craul arrested this a.m but let go a few hours later. The probable reason is that he is a civil engineer. At beiers to dinner. Walking with