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soon. The quilt is dull blue and the figures are copied from an old Chinese book, a scene of three little boys playing Blind Man's Bluff.  We had a sewing woman in for two days to do the hand work and we decided on deep red, dark blue, grey and black for figures so they would seem like reall Chinese kiddies. The sewing woman did very well and we are please with the result. We hope Freida will like it as much as we do. You would have laughed at the conversation which Louise had with the sewing woman that afternoon when she called and Dorothy was out and I was busy with a Department faculty meeting. The sewing woman said to Louise, "Is Mrs. Horse having a baby?" Louise said words to the effect that if so it had been kept dark from her. The woman then showed Louise the quilt and said that she felt sure Mr. Horse was planning this for a baby and that is must be for her own as even Mr. Horse was extremely interested in the way it was made. Louise did not disillusion her, but you may be sure that when the above conversation was reported to us Dorothy made an early opportunity to let it drop when talking to the sewing woman, that she did hope Mrs Miles would be pleased with the quilt and that she hoped Mr. Milese would have a boy baby as she very much wanted one. The sewing woman never showed in any way that she was surprised. We have certainly laughed about the affair.

The department meeting went nicely, merely the outlining of future work and a bit of checking up on the different sections. I was tired when it was over and after a happy supper and a little reading we went to bed.

November 21
Dorothy paid four duty calls this afternoon while I was up at school and wjen I came back I took the pup and went over to meet her for tea with the girls at Clove Alley. We have a hilarious good time when ever we go over there, and I felt really relaxed after my days work. After supper we decided to call up the Mileses and see if they would be at home and willing to let us come up for a little while and take the quilt. Dorothy phoned and Lee answered and said, "Yes, I am here and decidedly up, but Freida and Miss Miles are at home at the P.U.M.C. and will not be recieving callers for a few days." We were surely surprised. The little daughter was born late that afternoon and all goes well. So we contented ourselves with writing notes to Frieda and sending her the quilt to the Hospital.