VIII

It is a strange “illness this Spanish flu”, one

is never done with it, – the children are

well, more or less – are already going around “barefoot”; though

it is perhaps risky, – but they “take their shoes off” the minute

they are over at the neighbouring farm; because there

the children do as they please – and I don’t know,

what’s worse; either they go around all day

with wet shoes on their feet or barefoot – it is

inevitably one or the other.

The spring arrived here in just three–4 days –

of abrupt heat, – the spring is in fact

not so beautiful, when it occurs so

suddenly; the ice still remains on the lake,

but the forest is nearly everywhere green – one

misses those beautiful in-between stages of the

hints of spring halfway between black winter and

green summer, which we can experience during the same year.

Well you must (for now) accept a thousand bles-

sings and thanks for the spirits and all your trouble –

and Engel asks me to send her greetings and thank you pro-

fusely (she brought some with her to Mrs. P.C.H and the

two combined red wine and spirits and sat up drinking with Fond. Well you must

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