seven enrolled-that's the bright light in our work
 now as far as we are concerned. It does keep us
 extremely busy. We don't have very much material
 in French to help us, so we have to arrange what
 we have and work up the rest ourselves which takes
 a lot of time. The students just don't know how to
 take notes, so we have been typing carbon copies for
 them to keep for study and now we are going to
 try to hektograph them again; and that takes time-
 Mary has been doing most of that, however, which
 is a big load off my mind.
 It amuses us somewhat to see the reactions of
 the Haitians-it is like a bunch of kids playing
 "church."
 Dr. Vanderpool comes two weeks from last Fri-
 day, so we're in a rush to fix up the house too. Yes-
 terday I bought a Haitian table at the market, cut
 a hole in the middle and dropped in the sink our
 landlord bought us so he can attach it soon.
 Time for breakfast so I'll stop, naturally!

Oct. 16-We can't quite understand why writers who
 come to Haiti for from a few days to a month or two
 think this is such an exciting, mysterious place-
 wild and dangerous! People who live here and call
 it home hardly feel that way. I think I feel safer
 anywhere in Haiti day or night than I would in San
 Diego south of Broadway at night or on Main Street in
 Los Angeles. Of course, I wouldn't particularly relish
 being any of those places alone after midnight, nor
 in some places in Haiti. But for the most part, the
 people are extremely peaceable and gentle, especially
 the country people. Some of the city people hate
 the whites, and the beggars and lottery ticket sales-
 men are quite obnoxious, but we get used to that.
 After the first month or two, the drums on Saturday