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[[top margin]] FIRST SNOW!! [[/top margin]]

DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942

DECEMBER 2 WEDNESDAY

Dad stayed home with a cold.

[[crossed out]] Clou [[/crossed out]] Clear & windy & cold. I went to school as usual. There was a snow flurry in the afternoon & it got fair again - snowed quite hard but was all gone in the afternoon - melted on the ground, I guess. I had a lot of homework. We had company for supper (we had a roast but turkey isn't gone yet) - Miss Colcord & Miss Hawks - nice old ladies. Both are funny. They knitted & I did homework. Fred Southworth (Dad's not 1st cousin) would have come but he had larangitus[[laryngitis]]. The rabbit was out and knocked from table glass put with flowers on the pink bottom dish of set I gave mother for Christmas broke only it in 2 or 3 pieces!! I finished copying over my theme.

"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves"-GEORGE ELIOT



[[top margin]]$$ coldest yet - 21° [[top margin]]

DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942

DECEMBER 3 THURSDAY

Dad stayed home with a cold.

Fair & very, very cold - 21° . I went to school as usual. We had an English test on "Ivanhoe": It was easy but I probably got a few wrong (100 points - 100 ques., fill in, true & false, etc.) I had quite a lot - an awful lot of homework. Dolores came over & I sold 1 box of Christmas cards at the saleman's house who told us to come around on Dec. 3. We have 5 cents more each - I had $5.85 for presents, $14.00 for bond & have $5.90 for presents now. I finished teaching almost all Lesson I in German to Dolores. I changed my Christmas list - will spend $5.75 on presents leaving 15¢ in case I need it ever. 

"Method will teach you to win time"-GOETHE