Casablanca 10/19/1936
“Der Mensch denkt aber Gott lenkt.” (People predict but God reigns.) And our next pet didn’t turn out to be a little Canary but ugly rat who ate our nice salami, but we tricked it with some delicious cheese in a trap and now we are again the normal crew P, L, A, E, the 4 of us, Mekki and Emil, we are thanking for the name, we accept it, we also thank for the letter with money but we have to admit that Lars completely denied that it was Marie. I’m not quite sure whether he remembers you and Katerminegade but we talk often about Marie and Valdemar and all our planning charts are painted over with signs and strange drawings and it’s always for you. Sometimes the 2 are playing that they are driving in a chu chu train and when I ask where they are going then Lars says Copenhagen. They play moreover fairly well together, they can sit by the hour in Lars’s bunk that’s when they play they are driving in a car. I guess that would probably have to go “Dutch” (share the expenses) when we had to drive 1100 miles in a car, no, may we then please have Africa. Yesterday we went by car with a quarantine doctor, he is very nice and has a wonderful car. and he brings sometimes goodies. Although it’s not rum cakes but of course we are not quite so enticed as you imagine and we really haven’t intended to fill alcohol in the gas tanks, but the idea is good. When we turn our noses towards the home beaches, isn’t it? What an evening, we can leave then on board “Restmore” around 200 I of rum. But the West Indies because of being aged Mr. Borg has a hard time to remember. I only have Mozart’s sonatas and never had Svenson’s Mozarts … As far as I remember there were 2 books (piano and violin) etc.