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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.

Apl 24, 1913