May 7, 1931
"Just a week ago I got an upper and lower set of false teeth. Since then I've been having a heck of a time trying to get use to them. Eating is a slow and laborious undertaking. I'm just getting so I can whistle a bit. At first I couldn't hold my pipe in my mouth. I've improved quite a bit an have bought a big new pipe. Chewing tobacco is also an adventure but I've learned to tuck it away behind the teeth in the cheek. If I chew no more than I have in the past week, the saving on chewing tobacco will pay for the cost of the teeth which was 50 dollars.
Rowdy is chasing a female and crazy and will be for two weeks. When this mood strikes him his nature is changed making him a nuisance. This morning on my way to work I was called to the curb by John Rice. He asked if I knew that dog in the auto. I looked and there sat Rowdy very contently. He didn't want to get out and when I did take him out, he jumped back in. Then I tried to send him home by slapping but he bristled up and bit at me. I kicked him, he howled at me and snapped my hand in his mouth but did not bite down hard on it. Then he trotted away and ran into O'Donnell's news stand. I got a rope there and led him home. Now he is howling to get out and I expect him to do so the rest of the night. This sex urge in man or beast is just the same. The poor dumb dog has the sympathy of this poor dumb man."
May 7, 1931
D.C. Richard's Journal
Fantastic. E.
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