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My
dear son,
Your
letter of last week reached us yesterday, and I only have $13 left at present,
which I will send to you with this letter. I may sell the other pig next week
and meet the need of what you wanted. I will probably have to wear the old
overcoat to meetings again this winter, but that doesn't matter as long as you
are getting education(教育).
I
want you to be well educated so that you can go anywhere and spell the hardest
word. I want you to be able to go among the Romans or the Medes and Persians
and talk to any of them in their own language. I never had any advantages when
I was a boy, but your mother and I decided that we would support(支持) your learning no matter how much it may take though it means
cutting down our daily living costs.
I
hope you will get your education as cheap as you can, for it is a big job for
your mother and me to pay the school fees. I knew education comes high but I
didn't know the clothes also cost so much. Now look at that basketball suit,
and that bathing suit, and that lawn-tennis suit, I don't care about the money,
because you say a young man can't really educate himself successfully and
completely without them, but I wish you'd send home what you get through with
this fall, and I will wear them through the winter under my other clothes. We
have much colder winters here than we used to, or else I am failing in bodily
health. Last winter I tried to go through without underclothes, the way I did
when I was a boy, but a Manitoba wave came down our way and picked me out of
a crowd.
I
am not much of a mean man, so you will have to excuse this letter. We are all
quite well, except your old grandpa, whose shoulders badly hurt, and hope this
will find you enjoying the same great blessing.
Your
father
