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takes his place, and varius other principals have their understudies substituting them. But Tuesday night whilst my partner was neck swinging me he stumbled & fell of course bringing me also to the ground & somehow I managed to get up & run up the stairs & do the jump, but when I came of I could not move and am now in bed with luckly no bones broken but severe bruses on the knees anckels & hips, all skined & brused but my right knee is bruisd inside on the bone and it means several days before I can get up so, for yesderdays matinée they had to cut out the dance but they had a girl in the show for whom they got a partner and she does just a light dance no neck breaking stuff about it. I have finished absolutely with my partner for this rough work is killing me. I can only get cured now by resting and later when I am able to get up go to the mountain for a [illegible] rest. Well it was just as well the accident happened for

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