15

been nothing but po-
tatoes ad meat and coffee.
Jimmy Patten got out
the 20th and has been
quartered down stairs
so that he has
bot us fruit, which
has been my sole sus-
[tanance?]. My cold has
improved only a little.
I was ordered to the
hospital but the
ambulance didn’t
come, and the next
day I was a bit better.
Today Spat came back
and we were released.
Ate at YMCA Hotel w. Spat
and staid for Xmas
trees. Sox w. candy, nuts
& cigarets therein.