{NOVA SCOTIA LUTHERAN.
OFFICAL ORGAN OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD OF NOVA SCOTIA.
EDITOR: REV. C. H. LITTLE
BRIDGEWATER, NOVA SCOTIA
BUSINESS MANAGER: REV. W. N. WEAVER
LUNENBURG, NOVA SCOTIA.}
Bridgewater, N.S., April 29, 1914
Dear Mother:
Your most welcome and interesting letter was received a few days ago and was read with much pleasure. There is not much news to write to-night as things have been going along in the usual way, but I will try to give you a few lines in reply. We had several days of quite spring-like weather after I wrote you last week but to-day the wind veered around to the N.E. and was quite sharp and cold. I had to keep fire in the furnace about all day. But the worst of the spring is over and the roads are again dry and dusty. Sunday was an especially warm day and very fine. I took Carolus with me over to Mahone Bay. I had large congregations all around. In the afternoon I drove up to Farmville. Carolus stayed at the hotel and had a great time with the Drummers and the hotel people. He attended Church at Mahone Bay both morning and evening. He wants to go with me to Chester again Saturday but I don’t know yet whether I will take him or not. Herman told me yesterday that they were making mud pies and added “Father, did you make mud pies when you were a little boy?” I told
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I told him I guess I did and he thought it was all right then and has been making them ever since. Marion enjoys being out of doors as well as the boys and begs to go “out doors” every day. I take her out for an hour or so when I am home. She talks a great deal, rings the children in for me, goes to the stairs and calls them by name, and after hollers at the “boys”. When she wants the scissors she nearly always says “I want a pair of scissors.” She likes to put on the boys’ (Herman and Carolus’s) shoes and parade around in them and has many cute ways and tricks. The other morning Carolus wanted me to take his stockings off because he said there was dirt in them. I told him I wouldn’t as it was too near breakfast time. He said, “O yes, you will – You will take them off into the dining room” and then he laughed heartily at the pun he had gotten off. He is always ready with an answer, and it is hard to get ahead of him. All the children have colds but not bad. I have one myself in the head but I think it is a little better to-day. We had our Pastoral Association down at Rose Bay Monday. It made a long drive for me after my hard day Sunday. It took me till to-day to get rested out. To-morrow I will have to get down to my work
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for Sunday again. I will be glad when there is not quite so much preaching to do. It is rather hard to reach the different points from here. I have secured the services of one of our students for Midville this summer and if Pastor Shiery accepts the call to Mahone I will be relieved for a time. The preaching has helped me considerably in financing the Home. So far I have got along very well, but the hardest part of the year is coming. I sold all of our litter of pigs – seven – for $22.00. I got $3.50 for the two that I engaged and Mr. Evans got sale for the others at $3 a piece. We expect another litter in June and will have another in August if all goes well. We keep two sows, Yorkshire breed. We have four good cows, 2 heifers, 2 calves and a yoke of oxen worth $200. Our hens are laying very well now and we have plenty of eggs for our own use. If the spring weather continues we will probably get at planting by the middle of May this year – almost a month earlier than last year. I get the Boston American (one of the Hearst papers) every day and so keep up with the war news. I am enclosing a strong criticism of President Wilson’s attitude from a leading British journal. It strikes me as about right. But I must close. With love, I am
Most Sincerely yours,
[signed] Carroll H. Little.
