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go at that. I have at the present moment $17.45 that I have earned this trip, and I will send 5.00 of it to you. Hope you have not been cramped the past few days. I hope to have forty dollars by the time I get back unless I am obliged to buy a spring hat before then. I am so anxious to know about the rent money from the Monaghans and whether Mr. Cole paid you instead of paying Monaghans for the stuff they bought of the M's. But what good does it do to worry over it? The hills are green and the "red-bud" and peach blossoms and cherries and apples and crab-apples are in bloom. Not so many birds here as in Jacksonville. With much love, Mother. sideways, in lower left corner -- Apl. 24, 1913.