WINTER DAY Monday December 21, 1914. Cloudy and dark. High N.E. winds - 10 Today we celebrated our Christmas, Mae felt that this was a good plan because he and Tank have prepared to leave tomorrow; and furthermore this day marks the greatest distance south of us the sun will reach. Indeed it is a happy thought to realize that each hour from now on will bring the beautiful sun-shine nearer to us. The time has gone so rapidly that this winter seems nothing like so tedious as last winter was, but with all that in view our desire for the sun-shine is no less keen. I did not quite finish writing up our Vanderbiltville on Saturday. Mae entertained us with a lot of sleights of hand which I think was enjoyed more by the white men than by the Esquimaux who could not understand everything. After Mae came more singing and the whole thing was finished by a grand minstrel act carried out by Tot and Tank. With the aid of some coal soot and one drink Tot managed to do a very extraordinary dance and to appear to keep pace with Tank's singing. We had quite an elaborate dinner tonight followed by fruit cake and other good things. We had a long talk in Mae's room afterward made interesting by a little game of Truth which I started.