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about noon that Frau Schneider was looking pretty tired.  We had a rather fatiguing time of it.  I asked her to lead us to a cafe where we could get some lunch.  I learned that she had had nothing to eat as yet, only a cup of coffee.  In answerrto my q questions she explained that it was altogether out of the question to have breakfast.  A semling (the miserable little hard rolls of which I had two for breakfast) cost [[overwritten]] 4 [[/overwritten]] ^[[2]]00 kronen, one for her and one for her sister would cost [[overwritten]]  8 [[/overwritten]] ^[[4]]00 kronen, quite impossible.  Verna had one, but Verna was a growing child.  We had a pretty good lunch. It cost 3200 kronen, about 40 cents.  Frau Schneider said that that was more than she would spend for a day's food for the family.  On the way home that night I got a lot of semlings, a kilo of oleo (no store had butter) and a jar of honey, also some oranges.  She is always bossing me, so I told her I was going to do some bossing for a change--she would have to eat some breakfast.  One night a week or so ago there was a delicious piece of French pastry for dessert.  Verna was in the room while I ate supper.  She asked if I like this pastry.  I said I did and asked if she didn't.  "Ach, ja," enthusiastically. The mother had two bought, the other she in four pieces had cut, so they all to eat had.  I had the last bit on my fork--imagine my feelings!  I watched bakery windows till I saw this pastry, then I got enough to go around and some over. ------I have priced things in the stores here, food, I mean, to see what it pays to send from America.  Most things are cheaper here, in American money.  Frau Schneider knows how to make the most of things.  I thought that I wasted nothing, but when I had soup of the water a piece of ham was boiled in, thickened with a very little rice, I saw that I had something to learn.  I can't say I liked it, but I have eaten everything they gave me, even soup with caraway seed in it.  I spoke of the strange atti-

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Basic instructions indicate that the transcriber is to "Type what you see". I corrected the type "answerrto" to "answer to" Minor corrections, missing 'I' added and erroneous 's' removed - philjterry Added ^[[ ]] notation to indicate overwrite is written by hand