From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
Christmas is just a little more than two weeks away and I must make a list of all the people I want to give presents to: Brownie and Sherry and Grandfather and Grandmother, and Tom and Jerry because I miss them and I know they are homesick and maybe Uncle Milton will take me to the farm they are on so that I can see them again. And Alma and Aunt Tillie and Uncle Milton and Ito and Gladys and Sing. Sing is the nice Chinese laundry man who gave me the pretty egg. And then there are Grandma Uri and Louie and Aunt Josie and Uncle Julius and Uncle Albert and Aunt Hazel and Helen Violet and my father. That is just twenty. I have almost three dollars in my piggy bank because Winter is just the best flea season. The fleas are cold and they like to jump into Brownie’s warm fur.
Just a reminder — Tom and Jerry were Uncle Milton’s Airedales who had to live elsewhere when he came to live with his parents and Hilda after his wife died.
Note: Hilda did not write an entry on December 8 and will return on December 9.