Dear Ellen,
I was very please to receive your swell card and letter today. The card was a very nice one and thanks a lot for the "hankie." I was sorry to hear of the accident of your grandfather and hope you don't feel to bad about it. It couldn't have been helped and you shouldn't let it worry you too much.
We have been working long and hard trying to sell a few Christmas trees. We work from 9-9 with a little time off for meals. There are a lot of trees to sell and each day sees a few more gone and we count the days until it will be over. The hardest part of the work is pounding the pavement all day long. The concrete is plenty hard and my feet ache after standing all day. I really enjoy the selling part. We meet a lot of people and some of them are funny trying to pick out the tree they like. They all want one tall and bushy and you should see the different ideas they get about the various trees. Then too, it is fun trying to sell a poorer tree to somebody who has his heart set on something better. We do have our troubles and a few complaints on how much higher our prices are then somebody else's, the poorness of our trees, or somebody bringing one back because it dropped all its needles before it should have. I have sold better than $25 all three days until today and now I sold better than any day before. I can't find out the exact amount but I know it should have been more.
Yesterday was my birthday and I celebrated by working hard all day. I don't think I worked any harder than usual but I worked. Lloyd was the only one who gave me a paddling but he said he was getting even for the one I gave him on the 13th. After work, we had a swell cake with my name written on it and 4 quarts of ice cream divided among the 10 of us, and coffee. We each had plenty of ice cream. For presents, I received a swell pair of gloves and a game, "Kriss Kross." Remember?? We played one game last night and I won, too - as usual!
Our hours are terrific 8 in the morning till midnight. We don't have to be in town to the store until 9:00 o'clock because the store doesn't open till 9:30 and we don't try to get there any to much before that time. The last two days have been pretty cold and windy. Today the trees would fall over as fast as we would set them up so we finally got disgusted and left them lay until some customer wanted to see the one that was in the bottom of the pile. We have a windy corner as most corners are in the city!! We sold over 100 trees today along with a lot of wreaths. I don't know if you are terribly interested in the happenings of the christmas tree salesman but this is it.
I suppose I better say we got home safely and without a mishap. It was cold and snowy part of the way. There were a few parts of the country without any snow and every place we saw people skating on river or pond which made us want to go, too. We won't be able to until after Christmas but we brought our skates with us and if there is still ice then we will certainly use them. We are going to have our tree and presents Sat night so part of us can go to South Bend Sunday. My cousin is getting married then and a few of us will journey up there to attend. We will probably stay overnite and come back sometime Monday. Other than that I haven't much planned for the next week. I hope to get in some good rabbit hunting. I'm not much of a shot and the rabbits are scarce but I can sure hunt. Then too there will be some work to do around the place. I bet I keep plenty busy. If I were up there we would go to the Hollywood or someplace, "I betcha". We surely had a swell time the last two weeks didn't we?? The folks tell me I'm slipping after being such a good boy so long but_____.
Well I must sign off as it is nearly midnight and there's another day tomorrow. Thanks again for the swell card and stuff.
Love,
Larry
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