ing on right into the room where I'm typing letters
 and gives the canna the works practically under my
 feet. I suddenly become aware of the world around
 me and, whammo, puppy gets a resounding whack,
 drops the shredded foliage and scampers away with
 his head looking back over his shoulder as if to say,
 "Whadija hit me for?" Well, it's a dog's life-for
 the dog owner!
 Had to put the seed flat on legs to keep the
 puppy and chickens out. My next problem is to devise
 some fencing to keep both named animals away from
 them when they are planted in the ground.


 CHAPTER 4-".. a good Christmas season . ."

Dec. 22-I made a trip up to Gonaives last week end,
 and it was very interesting to see the Haitian country-
 side-so different from this urban area. The homes
 were so neat and clean, even if the houses were all
 mud-plastered sticks with thatched roofs, just like
 pictures of Africa. The fields of sugar cane, sisal,
 millet, maize, bananas, and cotton were very inter-
 esting to observe since there is little mechanized
 farm equipment here. We have the most beautiful
 little whitewashed mud church with thatched roof
 just ten miles outside Gonaives.
 Took quite a few colored slides. We're hoping to
 build up a series of a couple of hundred first-rate
 colored slides on all phases of Haitian life to use on
 deputation work on our furlough in the States. There
 is enough charm and local color here that we should
 be able to collect a very interesting as well as in-
 formative series.
 The Lord certainly is helping us. He has kept us
 from some serious mistakes which other missionaries
 have made, partly by getting us informed about