Habel

The reply on the tax reduction came. The seal was stamped upside down, but it's the first paper in twenty years, so I let it be.

• OsmonI'll have it resealed and sent again. By the old custom, that mark means it doesn't reflect the master's true wish.
  HabelI understand the meaning. I'm not giving the paper back.
• MartaThat man won't let go of a piece of paper.
  HabelThe water channel still isn't fixed.

Twentieth volume of the petition book. The handwriting in the first was the best.

• MartaThe man who's written the same one line for twenty years is complaining about handwriting.
  HabelOnly because that one line never gets through.
• AlbernHavel, I'll read the twenty-first myself, at night.
  HabelRead it at night if you like. The water channel is still there in daylight.