{The Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada} Sept. 27, 1925
Canada
Dear Mother:
Your most welcome and highly interesting letter was received some days ago and was greatly enjoyed as all your letters are. I had intended answering it this afternoon, but owing to an unfortunate invasion which we sustained my time was so taken up that all possibility of letter writing was entirely precluded. The invasion in question was one of flies. The screen had been left in the window of our bed-room this morning. It doesn’t fit tight and as it was raining all day, the flies – all the flies in Kitchener and Waterloo, if not all in western Ontario decided to come in out of the wet. And in they came by tens and hundreds of thousands. It was a battle royal to kill them all and I stormed the place with my swatter for a full two hours. When I had finished there lay upon the floor, the beds, the dresser and the chairs the carcasses of 293,754 flies. I had to get the big coal shovel out of the cellar to shovel them out. Happily there are not more than a dozen or so of them left in the house. But when I look back on the conflict I think I deserve a Carnegie hero medal for bravery.
After supper to-night I went down to Hespeler where I preached a Missionary Sermon for Pastor Grotke. I got along fine and enjoyed preaching. I had about 70 out, which was a fair congregation. I got back home about a quarter of ten.
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As Bonnie has written you and doubtless given you all the news that is worth-while it will not be necessary for me to write you at any great length to-night. Our Seminary opened this last week, and although all the theologs are not back, I taught all my classes rigorously and found great pleasure in doing so. Our school is going strong. We have about 80 on hand now and will have 83 when the Seminary students are all in. I agreed to-day to take over the Catechetical class at Bridgeport for Pastor Schülke. It will meet once a week from October till Easter. It has to be in English and as Pastor Schuelke cannot handle the language I agreed to help him out. There will be nothing in it for me beyond expenses, but I am willing to do it for the good of the cause. I got $6 for preaching to-night which came in like a godsend as I was down this week to the zero mark. We have had cool weather and have had the furnace going all week. All swimming at the dam is at an end for this season, and I rather miss it. We still have some carrots and some cabbage in our garden. Aside from this we have eaten it clean. I don’t know a year when we ate everything up as closely as we did this year. I have engaged my cider for the winter from our neighbour Mr. Weber. As we have a bumper apple crop this winter cider is very cheap, 15₵ a gallon. If I had another barrel I think I would fill two of them. Well, it is getting late and I will close. If I wrote another page I might not get it in Bonnie’s wee tiny envelope. With much love and all good wishes, I am
Most Sincerely yours
[signed] Carroll H. Little
