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Dear Em.

Today is the best day we have had for nearly a week. It has rained nearly all day, but it is not as cold as it has been, and it is quite nice fall weather. The natives around here tell us that this is their winter. If it is I don't think much of it. Mud up to your hips wherever you go, and very few if any sidewalks. Everyone takes to roads in preference to the ditches which are often quite deep.

You will laugh when I tell you that I had one of my ears frozen the other night. You know it doesn't take much cold to freeze my right ear, but it sure got it while I was walking from office to house less than quarter of mile. It is now in the red stage which is pleasant. Mother's letter of 14th arrived OK other day. Also Father's little note on end. So Uncle Wm. is going to retire and live on his Ford. Well that's a good idea, only he would have a quieter time if he had a Packard. How is H. G. getting along? No one has mentioned him in dispatches lately, and I have not noticed his ad in 'Rep'. Has he sold that perfectly good second car? It sure had a good run in the 'Rep', whether it would run on the road or not.

Mother's parcel of socks has not arrived yet. I expect they will come in any day now, as all parcels are delayed. The mail has to come a long way by motor truck, and the roads are not any too good. Talk about trucks, that is all I ever see now. Hundreds and hundreds pass thru the town every day, but I haven't seen nor heard a train for a month and a half. Talk about the simple life, this is sure simplicity. Also Father's little ?la carte French book arrived. Many thanks, it is quite a good idea, and I shall study it up a bit. I have always made them understand me so far, and the less you talk to them, the less chance they have to stick you.