locked up in the "den" and we hear him whining
 occasionally. We have our Christmas cards strung
 up around the dining room, and the Christmas tree
 lights are on. We are planning to have the Salvation
 Army captain and his wife here for New Year's
 dinner and treat them to an American spread with
 fried chicken. (They are Swiss.) We were at their
 house for Christmas dinner.
 Wednesday evening we planted the 23 tomato
 plants and unnumbered lettuce plants in a plot back
 of the house that I dug up that morning. So far they
 are doing famously and I think almost all will live.
 The mountains back of P.-au-P. aren't wooded
 except for a few sparce pines-they may originally
 have been wooded, but not now. But they are very
 beautiful and green. They are close to town-you
 could drive to Kenscoff in about 40 or 50 minutes.
 All along the highway poinsettia plants were brilliant
 with bloom. The peasants of Kenscoff grow truck-
 garden vegetables to sell in P.-au-P. and an American
 couple have quite a business growing flowers and
 flying them to the States for sale. It is much cooler
 up there-almost cold in the late afternoon.
 We got Mary's lab result today and she is normal
 except for a slight red cell deficiency or slight
 anemia.
Jan. 5, 1951-We got an extension of our visa for a
 period of 60 days (until March 3) and we were told
 we can get one more extension only. It would not
 surprise me if we have spent a third or fourth of our
 time in and around government offices.
 We are encouraged, and we sense the Lord's
 working. We are getting our teeth into the languages,
 but we haven't quite taken our first bite. We can
 make ourselves known, very painfully, in Creole and
 even occasionally in French. And we can get the