him a drawing or a water color. I am not favorably disposed, tho his list of artists who had already given him works included almost everyone who has achieved any sort of fame today.
                                                                    June 1, 1938- Wed-
     Arthur’s birthday - his first knife for a present.
     With B to town - a little shopping then I to harbor. It is hot & quiet; not much interest, but I study smoke against the sky. While I was sitting there, a man came along in a car, and stopped. He wanted to know if I was there in connection with the attempt to minimize the men in the Ontario elevator which had been going on for weeks. I explained my purpose to him, and then we had a little chat. When I asked him what had become of the house-boat & its old tenant, he gave me the shocking news that one night it had sprung a leak, and sank down far enough so that the old man was drowned. A month later the house-boat was broken up for firewood.
                                                                  June 7, 1938- Tues-
     “And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than the other birds upon the plain, even though they soar” –(Melville: Moby Dick)