Yi
Sajlk>ol, Seoul,
December 2, 1928.
Dear folks':
This letter should reach you about Christmas time,
and so I will wish you a very happy time.  I am very sorry you
do not get my letters regularly. ,.i never get them off later
than Tuesday; but I do not know anything about the boat connections from this side.  They go to Fusan-by train, then by boat
to Japan, and there are taken up by a trans-Pacific liner.
People say they do not pay any attention to the sailing dates,
out some of my letters may jus* miss a boat. vour letters
came last Wednesday evening, just before Thanksgiving.
I was certainly interested in your news about the
election, and. also in the radio program of Trinity.  I wish I
could hear Campbell Morgan Sunday afternoons.  Is the latter
part of the Sunday evening service not broadcasted?
It was very thoughtful of you to make something for
Mrs. Swinney.  I have the six books of father*s that you gave
me which I have already allotted to different ones for Christmas presents.  I am afraid my boxes to America will be a little
late.  I mailed most of them last Wednesday, but did not get
yours and the Palmer1s off till Friday morning.  I had to get
two little wooden boxes made to protect some breakable things,
which delayed their mailing.
I sent a little card and note to the Stephensons
this week also.  I sent Uncle Victor and Vincent each a pair of
damascene euff links which I bought in Kyoto, and Margaret Dudley
a damascene pin.  I had a. similar one for Helen Fetterly, but
unfortunately did not have her address, and so I had to send it
to you.  I sent a lacquer tray to Aunt Una and a s£t of sake cups
to Bernie, both of which came from Nikko.  To Floy I sent a
little box of stationery and some novel bookends made in Nikko;
and to Laverne a little Eikkosbox and a damascene pin.  Mrs.
Swinney seemed to like the bookends so much and spoke of getting
someone passing through Japan to buy her some like mine, that I
decided not to send the other ones to America, but to give them
to her, or rather to Bro. Swinney, since you are sending something
for her.
Last Tuesday Bruce Hunt had a Princeton gathering at
nis place for dinner. 'Frank Kinsler and Mr. Cunnings and I with
our teachers, and of course the people with whom he boards were
there. We had a very excellent meal, and then played a Korean
and one American same.  Bruce's teacher Is a student In Chosen
Christian College; and Frank's is a son of the first Christian
in Pyeng Yang. His brother about eighteen years ago was tortured
for seventy days until his health and mind gave way. He was told
that if he" would deny Christ he would be released. When he
refused, he was threatened with death; but he replied,  Then I 11
so to heaven*. His father is now a preacher in Pye'ng Yang.
That same evening the moon was "eaten by the dogs^of
the heavens'1, almost a total eclipse between six and seven o clod
The Korean word for eclipse Is ''eaten* .
Wednesday at Language School the chapel leader for