ried on high;” the way we got started was thusly: Joe was walking  along sedately with Prudence; suddenly he cried, “Gink gink gink” as fast as he could say it, and just then stepped with a splash and stumble into a pool of water. We all were soon aching from laughter. – I don’t believe I ever laughed so much in my life until - well laughing along we came to Wolf’s, where we went in. And here it was a wonder we didn’t get thrown out, for we got to laughing until we couldn’t eat, and when we did take a bite, one of us would say “Gink gink gink!”[i] 
                                                                      Thursday March 9, 1911
     This morning as I was lying half awake in bed, a robin somewhere out in the yard began to sing - I listened breath­lessly for several minutes and then I pulled aside the curtain and looked out into the frosty world, but could not see my serenader. I got up and all the time I was dressing I could him singing; I went downstairs and got my breakfast after which I started for the clothes.
     As I went out into the fresh morning air, cries and songs of robins arose on every side; occasionally I would pass under one and - how red were their breasts!