Sajikkol, Seoul,
June 9, 1929.
Dear father and mother:
TTearehaving warm weather now, but I believe
it is not as hot as the^^s of May last year when I visited Harold
Kenrick in New York.  It has not rained for nearly a month, and things
are looking bad; the graas is turning brown and some of the shrubs
are drooping.  If rain doe3 not come soon, the situation on the rice
farms will be critical.  I heard that down south where the people were
starving a recent hail storm had destroyed the "barley for this year.
Mrs. Norris received a dozen or two of flower
seed packages from someone in America; and just before the Stokeses
left she was talking of getting hired help to dig up the ground.  I
astonished them all by offering to do it myself.  I thought it wa3
foolish to pay heavy dues in a tennis club and walk a mile to play a
game and at the same time hire workmen to do some simple labor about
the house. And so that inspired the rest of the family; and one
afternoon we all got out and made the garden.
There were a lot of dahlia bulbs that had
never been separated; and so I divided all of them, and had so many
we hardly knew what to do with them.  I set tligm fc$£t nearly all the way
round the house.  Mrs. Norris planted the flover seeds; but it has
I been so dry that almost nothing but the California poppies have come
up.  Of course I'll be glad-to see them when they bloofei.
'We are getting some strawberries and asparagus
from our own garden now. But they let the asparagus grow till it
branches out before, cutting it; and the strawberries have to be
scalded before eating; so their palatability is somewhat diminished.
Mr. Norris left last Monday for a week in the
country to visit two churches that I did not get to on my I?s$ trip.
Mrs. Norris has been staying at night at th: Renter or at Carolina
Institute. Wednesday evening Margaret Billinjg&ley invited us to eat
the Center, and they had an excellent dinner ending with straw berry
ice cream, after which I went over to the Mission close by*
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moksa brought these to me and asked If I would like to send them to
America.  I thought you could put them to better use than anyone els
They were taken while I was in the country.  I don't know why Bro.
Stokes did not get in any of them.
While I think of it, I111 mention that I
tiled you this week four pictures-of the City Mission, which Bro.
:okes had taken so he could show them during his furlough. Wun
pksa brought these to me and asked if I would like to send them t<
• The night market, with its little canvass
stalls lined along the street, for blocks and blocks and its crowds of
people is a fascinating sight, and a great help in filling up the
Mission.  The market is open every night except during the winter;
and then it is hard to get much of a crowd in the Mission.  The men
who pass with their little candle-lighted, paper lanterns, leading
the ox carts are another picturesque sight to be seen in front of the
Mission at night.
A short while before Bro. Stokes left, one
night at the Mission a man who was saved got up to testify at the
close of the meetinc.  In his remarks, he said he had determined to