Koamalu : a story of pioneers on Kauai, and of what they built in that island garden / by Ethel M. Damon. [Vol. 1, no. 2]

POLITICAL AND PERSONAL

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necessary to use many a device to keep the larder
stocked with provisions. And company was frequent.
Sometimes the whole family would come from Bremen,
the children in great delight at the thought of "going to
Dora's" to watch the cows swinging their bells and
walking off to pasture. In winter vacations there would
sometimes be long sleigh rides through the forest; in
summer, long walks and expeditions of various kinds.
The new home which budded and blossomed in this
old mountain parsonage at St. Andreasberg had wide
knowledge of children, with a great love for them, and
nothing gave it greater pleasure than to fling its doors
wide open to any number of guests. The beautiful little son who visited that home, Harrison Paul Hans,
could stay but the one fleeting day of his coming. Yet
even with his resting place marked in the old churchyard, three happy years were spent in that mountain
town. And at times Dora Isenberg seemed to have
settled for life in the land of her German fathers. Even
so, Lihue and the islands were still home to her, and no
postman was more genially welcomed than the one who
brought letters from her father when on his periodical
visits there. Such letters spelled home, even though
they might not chance to be written from Lihue itself.
Honolulu, Dec. 15, 1883...... I shall go to Maui for a week and be back by the 23rd
to spend Christmas here in Honolulu..... The English are
building their new cathedral here. The Bishop is married and
back again from England.
At Lihue Herr Richter is now pastor. He has received
leave from the Consistory to officiate as clergyman and was
dispensed from his final examination in theology. I shall go
down to Lihue soon after New Year. Grinding will not commence there until then, I fear.