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es, thank you, I am very happy to talk again. I think it is a great honor. But being an answer to the prayer of my master, little David Crawford (when he asked for a dog a long time ago) and belonging to a real missionary family makes me a spe cial kind of dog, don’t you think so? When I last talked through these pages, my family, the Crawfords, were getting ready to go to Brazil. And now they are really there! Yes, they sailed away on a Japan ese freighter more than a year ago, only my master stayed at home to go to school. The letters that came home to our grandmother, who has taken me for her own, were like windows that let in such interesting bits of the new land and life. The trip down there was surely some trip! How would you like to go down to breakfast and find a heap of unsalted rice on your plate, and beside it another heap of un cooked little fish with big eyes, and a radish or two to finish it off? I can just see Mimi and Carol run ning for the deck and the fresh sea breezes. They are the two girls of the family, you know. I think they are the finest girls in the world, and I kind of believe I’ll always be the nicest dog in the world to them. On their trip to Brazil my family was all sandwiched into a stateroom so tiny they could scarcely turn around and there they were for over a month of rough and calm seas. They and one other mission ary family were the only Ameri cans on the boat, though a few of the Japanese had lived here in America and spoke good English. That was fine. It made it possible for the father of my family, Noble Crawford, and his wife Norma to hold Bible classes on the boat. And it was a real joy to the missionaries to hear the people humming to themselves and singing the songs they had taught them.
The giving of the gospel was the best part of the trip to the hearts of the missionaries, though there was much else that interested them. They enjoyed going through the Panama Canal and watching the strange sights on either side of the boat. And they will not soon forget the first port where they stopped. It was near midnight. The food on the boat had become so hard to eat they felt quite starved so the two missionary men hurried off in the darkness through the lonely streets of the little town and got the store keeper out of bed. They got a big welcome from their families when they returned to the boat with huge bags of groceries. At their first stop in the land of Brazil such a pleasant thing hap pened. One of the well-to-do Bra zilian families met the boat for some reason. They chatted with our missionary family and it all ended with their being guests in a lovely Brazilian home. That was a happy look into the new land for them. God has wonderful ways of pro viding for His people, and though they could not get their belongings through customs for many weeks they were able to live in the home of other missionaries who were leaving. They began to love the huge, wonderful land they had come to live in right away. They found it was much like the sunny Cali fornia they had left, and Brazil’s great cities had buildings as mod ern and beautiful as any of our own. There were new fruits with strange names that tasted delicious. And best of all, the people were kind and friendly. They were glad to be settled in one of the smaller towns where they could get to know the people around them. The daddy of our family is quite dark with black hair and looks so
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