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So I removed the offending part and got it ready to send for a new one and
then had to wash up for tea. Then Hsiao mei mei came in and monopolized
things for awhile and here we are. We are having a Birthday dinner tonight
Its Mrs Lockharts birthday too and last year we ate at their place - also
by mistake then we thought it was Lockharts birthday and I brought him a
bottle of Scotch - which he dutifully turned over to Mrs L amid applause.
The Lockharts, Betts and Davidsons come tonight so it will be a noisy bunch
And I have to pull out at 8 am tomorrow. Glad I was slowthful today. I
enclose the weeks news and last weeks too. Hereafter I shall send the page
of the Sunday Beader instead of the weekly booklet for which I have ceased
to subscribe because they wont publish the weekly summaries of exchange as
Grover Clark had assured me they would. Also thereby I shall save an honest
penny, and you will not suffer for the weeks news will come just the same.
Yes I did enjoy the clippings and the Globe and gloat as you may have
noticed in last Sundays spiel. Also I then told you of New Yorks approval
of our Chou Kou Tien scheme carrying with it the necessary financial
support. Thats what takes me to Tientsin tomorrow. We have had the greatest
fall of snow in Peking within the living memory of man this week - and its
still snowing in bits. We had a gang on the roof cleaning it off as a leak
began this aft. It brought to mind what you told me of the downfall of
your verandah roof. I hope your sofa survives. You will ere now have had the
official photos - also a bunch of snaps. Mei mei is learning to walk rapidly
or rather rapidly learning to walk. My word she is the temper-mental queen!
Some handfull of charms!! And husky as they make em - she and I will have
much discussion as to wills and wants and stern measures are going to be
difficult though I must steel me heart! I hope to write Ha this coming week
and discuss you and more experiments!! Dont you be downhearted though for
what I may suggest can do you no harm and may do the trick as it has in
some of Maxwells cases here. Heres luck! There goes mei mei to food. I wish
you could see her going up stairs - walking the goose step exaggerated - (supported)
one leg cocked up to an absurd angle in front to reach one step, followed
by the other similar like! All the while talking most engagingly. Now I too
must run along and get ready to eat, drink and pack me bag. Good night dear
wee mother o me. Bless you and make you well sone. Davy sends a special bunch
of love and enquiries as to the welfare of "that box" (toys under your bed!)
Bestest to GG&kidsASAGUJex39itesBeaStCstetal. BBSOCYK SYL HOL YAS
Syo