December 29.
Dear Judy:
Sadie Kate has spent the week composing a Christmas letter to you,
and it leaves nothing for me to tell. Oh, we've had a wonderful time!
Besides all the presents and games and fancy things to eat, we have had
hayrides and skating parties and candy pulls. I don't know whether
these pampered little orphans will ever settle down again into normal
children.
Many thanks for my six gifts. I like them all, particularly the picture
of Judy, junior; the tooth adds a pleasant touch to her smile.
You'll be glad to hear that I've placed out Hattie Heaphy in a
minister's family, and a dear family they are. They never blinked an
eyelash when I told them about the communion cup. They've given her
to themselves for a Christmas present, and she went off so happily,
clinging to her new father's hand!
I won't write more now, because fifty children are writing thank-you
letters, and poor Aunt Judy will be buried beneath her mail when this
week's steamer gets in.
My love to the Pendletons.
S. McB.
P.S. Singapore sends his love to Togo, and is sorry he bit him on the
ear.