Ecaught myself feeling at home in Shanghai yesterday. It frightened me so that I almost engaged passage home, for when one gets to feeling as chummy as that with an alien country, then its about time to get repatriated. I did go so far as to have my passport examined and brought up to date at the Consulate in case I should slip back into homesickness worse than ever and want to make a running jump for the next boat home.
With my credentials refurbished, my vaccination certificate and the price of a ticket I ought to be able to make a speedy get-away, always providing that seamen's strikes don't become popular in Shanghai. But now that ['ye registered as an American citizen Ti probably be contented to stay out here for a while just to justify the trouble involved.
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