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2 letterhead JEANNETTE ST. L. SOMERS 11209 Vernon Avenue Chicago, Illinois

in the back room of a tavern when she caught up with me. Have you also read "Ishmael" and "The Hidden Hand" and "Tempest and Sunshine?" I read some of the darndest stuff, at the same time that I was thrilling to poetry, which I dearly loved. The first poem I remember is Wm. Allingham's "The Fairies," then Wordsworth's "The Cock is Crowing" and I thought Tennyson's "Bugle Song" was the ultimate in beauty. (I still love its musical quality.) I came down with rheumatic fever and later with "St. Vitus Dance" and I was told to stay out-doors as much as possible with no more reading or playing the piano. I finally got around that by going to my grandmother's and reading everything she had which included the "Arabian Nights," "Life of Pope Pius the Ninth," "Jane Eyre" and "Samanthy at Saratoga" and old copies of The