Hello Sweetie-cake:
Awful warm to-day -- just the right kind of a day for a little boy to go barefooted, with his shoes and stocking on. Hope it stays warm like this so that we can go in swimming EVERY day while we are at Delevan lake. Don't forget, my young gentleman, that you're going to learn to swim this summer. Mack says he is going up to the lake this week to stay till school time, and he's bragging how he knows how to swim and dive. I tell him I bet he can swim like a rock and dive like a feather -- and he says he can swim like a feather and five like a rock.
Will see you the latter part of this week and will be glad to see you. Miss you a whole lot -- it's so quiet around the house. John thinks you ought to hurry back so I won't be so lonesome.
Yesterday I stayed home all day writing and washing dishes and shelling peas. Tell grandma I eat so many peas it will be a wonder if I don't pea on something, my shirt tail for instance.
Yum! Yum! We'll have ice cream every day at the lake. Ice cream cones and everything. And I'm saving my pennies for you, and maybe I'll have a few dimes, too.
Yesterday I saw Joe. He was walking around the yard cut in the middle of the road on the left ear of his right hand and he looked at me with his nose on the back of his head and said with his big toe, axttau encomen evartsut mvoansg rue thavdnwmv mnoey. therav.
Of course it's a secret, and you mustn't tell a soul. I told him I wouldn't tell anyone but you.
Well, good-by, Gee, old Horse,
Lovingly, Dad