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of 2 large images not far from the mouth of the
cave; M. & I walked back a good part of the way
with him, & I plied him
with questions about his trip up country across the
Chinese border & over in India with Dr. Robbins;
he talks very well, so it was interesting to hear him
relate some of his experiences.

April 25, 1922 - Tuesday
We were at the H.
house again last eve after supper to look at the Shan
bags sent Mrs. Johnson – who is very deaf – for sale, &
to say goodbye, as we had to leave very early this a.m.
of course some of us fell for the pretties – I bought
a pink, & a blue, one – paying R8 & will have to send
back R7, as I wouldn't have had enough to pay
for them & my tickets, too. Miss Lawrence would
have us go to her house, so we inspected it in short
order, & then back to H's to gather up the rest of our
crowd & back to our hostess house to pack up, fixing
everything we could before morning. The sister who
has the shop was rolling cigars, as she did the night
before, & they asked us to sing which we did while un-
dressing [undressing] & getting settled. They were up to see us off this
a.m., & while it poured from about 1 to 5 it held up
in time for us to get loaded on the motor lorry. Miss
J. got her rug muddy coming to the train, as she in-
sisted [insisted] on sitting on the outside, altho she had no rain-
coat [raincoat]. We reached here about 10:30; the latter & Miss T.
got baths before break; the rest of us afterwards. I
had my lesson & almost went to sleep; then a nap,
& finally washed & dressed just in time for prayer
meeting at Dr. T's, Mr. Klein of Moulmein leading,
& taking his text from the book of Jonah, prayers
being asked for the Convention to be held at Indian-
apolis [Indianapolis] in June. Had letters from Miss Chapman
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ful [thankful].

April 26, 1922 - Wednesday
Mr. Ali Sou asked again if I could go down and
take the baby's picture this afternoon, so I went
shortly after 4, but as the mother is head nurse at
the civil hospital & had to be sent for, I had about ½ an
hour to wait; took 4 exposures anyhow, tho' it was
after 5 when I got the last one, but I waited for the
sun. On returning I. & I took a short walk – didn't
have time to go far as it was then so late. Mr. Ali Sou
gave me two sets of the large buttons he had painted for the
bazaar; I think they are the prettiest ones; Misses G. &
T. also bought some, I believe. I think the rain is over
for a while, tho it evidently came down harder here
than it did at T., as the roads were more washed &
the creek very full and muddy. Wrote "bread and
butter" notes to Mr. & Mrs. Po Yin, at whose home we
stayed in T; & to Mrs. Ah Pou, Saya's sister-in-law, who
bought our food, and otherwise helped to look after us.
I'm getting an extremely sore mouth, I'm sorry to say.
Am going to plan to ready my Geographic and some
of the Youth's Companions this week; I've had no time
to peruse any of the books I brought with me, nor the
ones Mr. H. has with him – a very good selection,
from all appearances. Miss Phinney, who is on the
exam com., is going to give us a test the last of the wk.
to see what we can do. After inspecting Dr. T's garden,
in which he was working, he gave us some radishes
and lettuce to bring back to the household; his wife had
a com. meeting when we first got there but she later
found us in the open. The Meth. people came to call, but
none of us were at home; they then went to T's but didn't go in?