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1007 West Oregon Urbana, Illinois May 30, 1956 Dear folks, I guess today you are in Stoughton. Probably, as here, it is drizzling. I hope you have good traveling with all the good big roads. I had a holiday today but worked 6 hours of over-time. Boy, that money will help! I have another, student, outside job coming up, a short one. Being in the office handily, they just come to you. It will be my third outside job besides the thesis. We have a new acquisition of fascination. Day ago Jack visited the local lake & was impressed by the number of small cray-fish. Yesterday we purchased a small (3 gal) aquarium & stocked it with 11 crayfish, an inch or so long. We have been following their migrations, search for holes, battles, & feeding habits with great interest. If we get tired of them we can get fish instead. We have been missing aquarium life for a long time! The Cederstrands gave us a can of codfish mash [[strikethrough]] balls mask they didn't like & we are feeding them it; they really go for that. Jack is enticing one out of the water with.