Kijabe
E.A.P. Feb. 2nd 06
Miss
Cora Minch,
Hooppole,
Ill.
My
dear Krazy Kora:
My
ears rang many times the last few months and I could never
make out
why, but I imagine now it was because of the hard words you
used
because I did not write. Well never mind I thought of you just
the
same and that’s just as good as writing. My but that sister of
yours is getting fat. Now I dont think that Pa of yours was
fair
with me I did’nt bargain for a little fat old woman and yet
that is
what he sent me. I sigh, sighs of sorrow when I think that in
this
country you must pay for clothing according to size I am
afraid this
great calamity will bring me down in sorrow to my grave and
what is
worse she is getting fatter every day. I suggested to her one
day
that we make up our living expenses by traveling with some
circus. She as the fat woman and I as the tall lean man. Well
that is the
way we look anyhow. Well I dont care I am glad Florence has
come
anyhow. The natives here pay bigger prices for fat women and
they
say I am a big man for having such a valuable wife. So that
fixes
matters alright.
Well
you ought to see how we have been running around the last few
days. Would you believe it that we went twenty miles one day.
That is
really a fact. Because we are up so high the air is very light
and
walking is very easy, and I thought I would try Florence and
see if
she could walk and she really out walked me. We went off to a
bamboo
forest and I tell you we did have a jolly good time. We
roasted
potatoes on the coals, and had roasting ears and sweet
potatoes. We
went to a village where native hunters live. They speak the
Masai
language and told us many interesting things. Pretty caves and
waterfalls we saw by the dozens. I think Florence has seen
more of
the places about here than any one in our Mission. We usually
take
lunch along and I tell you it is grand fun. Dont I wish you
and
Alice could be here for a little while. If I could’nt show you
a
good time then you dont know what a good time is. But you’re
coming out some day are’nt you? So Florence said, so we will
just
wait and plan for a dandy time when you get here.
Say,
why dont you plan to come here to stay. We saw a whole lot of
dirty
babies one day and Florence said How Kora would enjoy washing
up
those babies. I will leave here tomorrow for the Masai
Reservation
and dont I just wish you were here to go along and wash up a
few of
my Masai babies there. They are such a dirty lot of little
chaps. Florence will stay here at Kijabe until the house is
finished but I
think she will go with me inside of six months. One of our
missionaries here will go with me now to help do the building.
Mr.
Hurlburt said Florence could go with me as soon as the house
is built
so you can just guess there will be one busy fellow for the
next few
months. I think we are going to have a beautiful house and if
you
come out you had better come to help fix it up when it is
finished. But I must close. It is late at night and I am very
sleepy. Sorry I
cant stay here a few days longer but a week off at the
beginning adds
a week at the end so I think I had better go. Well Good night,
sleep
well, and I will try to too.
Yours
as ever
John.
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