March 22 Friday.

Gelat brought Salamo's1 barrel, prunes, wine, vine supports.
Poem: 3 drafts And Should I Fail? (yesterday's)
Wrote to A.E.S.G. asking her to investigate a deaf-appliance for Sam. 2
Planted seeds as follows:
  • Mignonette
  • Sweet William, edged
  • Sweet William, plain
  • Ageratum
  • Balsimina
  • Salpiglossis
  • African Marigolds
  • Zinnia
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  • Wall
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and put ashes round. Flowers for house: stocks, freesia and vermouth, marigolds & silver stalk, periwinkles, the English sort, bluer than the ones here. First day Josepha worked with us. Holes dug for vine-arbour supports, and these cemented in, Gelat supervising. Three olive, two almond. He also put in another row, as a surprise, along the torrent.
Took Salamo for a walk to the Mirador: on the way took a cutting of orange ball from Son Bujosa. Put the prickly plants from the Fonda into pots. The wine is from Santa Maria & cost 45cts4 a litre — claret. Roca whom I met on the road had seen bull-fights with mastiffs in his youth, at Palma. Two dogs went in at a time: if the bull was too much for them two more. Went straight for the bull's ears & throat. A young bull: he wasn't killed, but returned to the toril5 when the President decided. The bull was the victor until a dog got hold of his genitals: then this dog was the victor.

Editorial Notes

1RG's dog's. eds
2Sam born with a hearing impairment. eds.
3We shall see... KG
4centimos WG/KG
5bull pens WG