After this, Daddy got the job teaching in Baltimore, and so Mommy and I left Urbana forever, the two of us together, in June 1948.

Daddy came to Baltimore in August. We were at the Chadford then.

Bus #29 took my Daddy and me to the university when we saw "Heidi." We went to the plays at the Johns Hopkins Children's Educational Theatre together. "Heidi" was on October 22, 1948.

We saw all the stories children love. They spoke their own lines, just naturally, without studying written parts. Mrs. Bowen directed the plays.

"Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson was another play I saw. It was on January 15, 1949. I liked it because it was exciting, and I remembered Ford and me looking for treasure.

I liked Heidi because her grandfather loved her and wanted to help her. She was a very good little girl, and she didn't like to be unkind to anybody. "Heidi" was a story Aunt Celeste sent me with lots of pictures, and Mommy and I read it all the time. It made me think about my own Granddaddy.

We had quite a distance to go to see my grandparents. They lived in Forest Park, and we took two buses and a street car to get to see them. One bus was the #22 bus. It went past Carlin's Park and there was a big glass case with a huge laughing woman with a hat and heavy clothes on. She was artificial. We heard her laughing a block away. It was fun to hear the cheerful laugh. We got off the bus at the end of the line, Liberty Heights Avenue.

Mommy and I rode on the buses a lot. We took the #10 in back of the Chadford on Roland Avenue, and we rode all the way downtown. We often rode to the Lexington Market. It is the biggest market in Baltimore. It has more stalls than I have ever seen before. We bought lots of seafood because we didn't get any in Urbana except when Granddaddy sent it express to us. He sent barrels of oysters and crabmeat and fish from one of his patients in the seafood business. It was delicious. The Mace Seafood Company sent it to us.

The #29 bus rode in front of the Chadford to my school. I got on across the street, and it left me off at the door. When we moved out to Towson, Mommy paid to keep me in the school because I was happy there. That was the second grade, the second year I was there. She came for me every day, and I waited in front of the school. I always bought an ice cream or a popsicle from the Good Humor Man for Mommy and me. The truck was in front of the school every day at three o'clock.

We had a very hard time finding a house when we were at the Chadford. Mommy's friend, Betty Conklin, took her everywhere to find one. She's a real estate agent. That's how we met her. Her little girl, Mary, went with us too. She's a very good and very pretty little girl. Charles is her brother. I liked him very much.

We went everywhere to look at houses. We saw Mr. Blanding's Dream House on Bellona Avenue near Charles Street, the very house in the movie with Cary Grant, who played Mr. Blanding.

There was a house near my school I wanted. But we didn't get it.

Finally, somebody showed Mommy a house that was beautiful. It was big, and it was near a brook with trees hanging over it. It was brick, and there were big rooms. There were two bathrooms, and there was a bird's nest in the basement with baby birds in it. It was all new.

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