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1 One day this week your letter of Aug.   17 was handed me
at  school.     As there is a little time before  church th 1 s morning,   I
will  start my  letter,     I was  glad  to read Mrs.   Dougherty's letter,
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After a record breaking heat wave  for a week,|the last
few days -have brought a record breaking.cold wave  for September.  After
last  Sunday  it began to  cool off and  *he past two days have been frosty.
The north wind  seemed to be  coming off  snow  fields,   as  indeed  it probably was,   as  snow a  foot deep is reported  from <lEverwhite Mountain*1,
Korea's St.   Shasta on the northern border.    'Harvest  is all .over  in
Manchuria they  say. "  It will yet be a  few weeks before it  can begin
here.     The weather  surely  cannot  stay this  cold very long.
§f     1 My hppetite has;not been bad  for weeks now,   *nd  especially
with the  cold weather I'want to eat more.     3o do not worry.    We have
a pint  of milk delivered here every morning from ;-the Songdo Dairy,   which
is run  jointly by the High School and Baron vun' s  sons.     I  guess the
school has nothing to do with  it really  except having an investment  in
the property.     Maybe the  ground belongs  to the  school,   I  don't know.
The milk  is very  good.     The dairy  is  in a very attractive spot,   just
over a hill outside of the townbeyond the  school,   among trees,  with
lots of grass.     And two or three days ' ago Mrs.  Anderson bega.n giving
me a  quart  of buttermilk  each morning.     They have  a  cow,   and   churn
ever*"" day,   she  said. '   They   cannot use all  the - buttermilk,   and give
some  to one of the  lady missionaries also.     I  go  for  it  every morning
about  ten  o'clock.     I  think of how'fond -nother was  of buttermilk,   and
wish  she had  some of this.   -
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Songdo is an apple center, and the trees-are loaded and
just getting ripe.  The school so^.e years ago set out an acre or two
of Delicious apples (ordered direct from America), and they produ
verjrwell.' They are so lar^e that one apple sells for ten sen, an
exhorbl+ant"price in Korea.  Peaches also are very good now.  I notice
here a new method of propping/trees. ' A pole the height of the tree
is set by the trunk, and ropes tied at the top reach out on all sides
to the heavy brahcheslahd hold them up.  It makes the tree look like
a May pole, or the framework of a" tent.
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wicker baskets
The ginseng  crop is;appar
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jaskets   coming into  the
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drying.     Wagons  piled mountain' high with these b
sheds"make" an  impressive  scene. .  T&ef are less  for
look,  however,   for the baskets are veryflight,' of course.
'       -'     When you said  Lloyd  apparently was not ,going to P^f-any
more  on the note,   I wondered* if a  letter   from me  saying^what  I had
planned  on doing with the money would have any weight w^th him.     I
can hardly think he would not pay  it at all. i I  should think as long
as vou sre living,   at  least,  he would  feel an obligation.    He mignt
think,   if vou were gone,   and he were  short  on money,   there was not
much use of his  paying Nelson and me,' who are younger than he and
able-bodied.     But he  surely will pay .you.