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They had looked forward to occasional visits to Italy and had hoped to realise a lifelong dream of a journey to the tropics. Instead they are probably short of food, are certainly short of fuel and all that makes life comfortable. They had one cubic meter of birchwood for the winter and were still using it--that is [[strikethrough]] [[underlined]] all [[/underlined]] [[/strikethrough]] the fuel they had.  A former student of Prof. Hackel's, now in Sumatra, sent them a bag of green coffe which they roast themselves.  Henrard has sent Dutch cheeses and chocolate. Henrard visited them in 1920.  He came with a great lot of provisions and they were the guest of their guest, Frau Hackel said. He stayed two weeks, they say he is sehr lieb.  There is no beer, no rum, nor wine, nor tobacco, even.  So many women seem to smoke here that Frau Hackel rather apologetically explained that they had no tobacco in the house, that "neither of them smoked"--I assured her I didn't either. Their devotion to each other is beautiful.  He helps with the housework some,and goes for the milk.  "Kein wissenschaftlichen Arbeit," she said, with a shake of the head, as he started after the milk.  She told me that she forgets things and can't find things and her lieber Mann comes and finds them for her.  She wishes there were a medicine for the "Fergies-krankheit."  I told her if there were I would want a big supply of it.  When Prof. Hackel and I started out for an Ausfluge they embraced as if they were to be parted for ten years.  They have a little goat that was to be fresh in a short time. That will gibe them milk.  In their part of Austria one sees the wayside shrines, such as I saw coming through Bavaria. Like the church on Leopoldberg they weem to be automatic. I never saw anyone pay any attention to them. The men did not even lift their hats as they passed.  On our walk up the hill where I got Sealeria I saw a large shrine--like a church reduced to the chancel only--over the front was "Heilige Edward bit fur [[insertion]] ^[[uns."]] Division of labor--the saint could pray for them while
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