Dearest Kid: Your very good letter gave us a laugh. I can just imagine you digging and hunting for worms that you cannot find. I hope your peas do well then you will be able to can them for winter. I tried it last year but didn’t have good luck. They are hard things to make keep. I am putting up berries in jam and jelly these days as I have Youngberry bushes in my yard which bear profusely- simply gallons! Yes, Denny is the nurse who came from Great Falls with me last fall. You got that figured out right. Now, young lady about that club membership: I am going to pay the dues up to the first of July and your letter should be in the Club now. You see having my own home, I can entertain any body I need to entertain here which is better for me because I have the pictures, the bronze and the books so for the past two years I have not used the Club at all and feel $6.88 a month thrown up I the air isn’t doing anybody any good. I don’t remember you asking about the club and I didn’t mention it to you until now because I didn’t think you wanted to carry it alone. Money is tight with me and as I am not using the Club and there are no prospects of you returning to want the membership, I thought it foolish to go on paying don’t you? I wish you had told me you had a chance to sell the membership. If I had money coming in easy, I would go on holding the membership just for you. I am writing a letter to the Club explaining that I am paying to July 1st and that I understand you have written regard- ing the membership. You will, of course, do as you please about it now. I seem to see you giggling all through your last letter. Something has certainly given you a happy streak and I hope you go on planting vegetables, picking berries and being happy. Jack graduates from Junior High School this week and next week we all pull North to the Lake for the summer. I am not very keen to go because everything is beautiful here. I guess I like civilization as much as you like the wild. Aren’t we funny creatures? My bestest[sic] love to you. June 12, 1933. [Transcribed by Lauren B. Gerfen, 2012-11-05]