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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.