my letter about Joe, but we all think a great deal of him.
Don't you remember Emilie's saying, "I would try to
make him lovable." He is lovable now, I assure you.
I am sorry our canaries quarrel, but that is no fault of
yours. We have only two school-fellows at present, but
Herr Franks does not wish for a large school; he says he
likes to be always with us, and to be our companion, which
if there were more of us he could not so well manage. We
have one trouble, and that is in the temper of this newly
arrived German boy, but we are going to try and make