The lady had a beautiful box of cards that Mommy bought, and then the lady walked down the street and disappeared. Mommy said, "Wasn't that strange, for her to ask me that question? Funny things do happen! Like the time we needed money for gas in the car, and, when we walked outside, you saw a dollar bill lying in the driveway, Lin!" Mommy looked at the cards and read the beautiful messages about the Lord to me and about our being His lambs and sheep, and we felt very happy. One card was about Bethlehem, The City of the Lord.

The nurses were all very nice in the hospital, and one came in to tell me her patient wanted to give me a present. I decided to write him a note. His name was Mr. Katz, but I spelled it wrong, "Mr. Catts," and Mommy giggled at it. I didn't like her laughing at me like that because I'm a sensitive person. I said, "Mommy, don't laugh at a sensitive person!" I felt sorry for her, then, because she didn't like being laughed at herself when she was serious. She knew she was being unkind by laughing at a person, and Mommy didn't like being unkind.

We've had lots of jokes together, but, when I was very sick, I didn't want to laugh. I always loved to laugh when I was well. We'd laugh the most at Little Lulu in the comic books and Moon Mullins and Kayo and the other comics.

When I went to camp the summer, I lived at the Chadford Apartments; I laughed all the time, I was so happy. The name of the camp was Happy Hollow Camp in Brooklandville, Maryland. The bus came for me every morning, and I kissed Mommy good-bye. We went out Falls Road and Padonia Road to the camp. It was eight miles north of the Baltimore city line.

We had hikes and picnics, and there were horses and a little path of stone steps down to the pool. I learned how to swim, and one day Mommy and Daddy came to visit. I was very proud and happy, and I kept waving to them from the pool. Daddy had been away in Urbana all that summer, teaching.

I showed them the big barn where we did arts and crafts. I made a felt badge with "H" on it, and, when I learned to do things, I could sew on a bead. I had four beads. The food was very, very good, and I ate and ate and ate. When Mommy came with Grandmommy and Aunt Lorraine one day to see me, she had some chocolate milk out of a bottle, and we sat on a little hill together and looked at the beautiful view all around. Then we went up to the log cabins to see where the girls stayed who lived at the camp. The last day there was a big party with all kinds of entertainment-real Indian dances with real Indian costumes. My, it was fun!

I used to like to come home and rest a while, then eat dinner with Mommy. The bus would let me off in front of the Chadford, and Mommy would always be waiting for me, wanting to know what I did all day. She missed me while I was away and hugged and kissed me as soon as I got back. Then, after dinner, I listened to my favorite radio programs. I also had to practice the piano, because I took lessons.

When we heard Fanny Brice on the radio as Baby Snooks, I'd laugh and laugh and laugh. She was my favorite and so was her Daddy. He got in so much trouble on account of Baby Snooks and her little brother, Robespierre. There were only a few radio programs Mommy enjoyed and that was one of them. They didn't teach me anything good, so we started making up one of our own. We wrote some of it out together and talked about it lots of times.

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