she would have to plan to leave on time while you are gone, hecause 
none of us stayed over time much. She wailed about having all this 
time to make up and it worried her not getting it done, and then yester- 
day she asked both Mr. Shoemaker and me if she could take 4-1/2 days 
Easter week-end to take a field trip to North Carolina] Mr. Shoemaker 
told her he had no responiiMlity in the matter and she’d have to talk to 
me. I told her that I didn't think she ought to do it and that if it 
were I, !_ wouldn't do it. I told her if she did do it, I thought she 
ought to plan to make it up in September after her time is supposed to 
be up and not at night after you get back. If she takes these 4-1/2 
days, it will make a little more than 10 days that she owes you. I 
told her I thought she ought to plan that instead of being through the 
first of September, she will have to work ion til the 15 th. She said 
that would be all right, and then she said shh'd taorar rather have them 
dock her two weeks' pay. I told her I did not think that was a good 
idea, that you had gone to a lot of trouble to get the money and were 
the only one outside of California who had been allowed it, and that 
it woxildn't boost your stock with Hancock if you had to go back and ad- 
mit that she wanted two weeks off and wanted her pay docked. 
I told her pretty plainly, too, that if she took any more time 
off I thought she should not p lan to make it up nights even after you 
are back — that you liked to have yoiir evenings alone so you could take 
your shirt off] I told her you were glad enough to arrange so she could 
take on the Bass Job, but I did not think you would be much in favor 
of her piling up any more night work. 
At the end of the discussion, I told her she would have to let 
her conscience be her guide — and if she takes the time, to make it up in 
September. I told her I didn't think she ought to do it and that I could 
not take the responsibility of telling her it would be all right. I 
don't know what she is going to do. She began to wail that she needed 
a vacation, she is fed up on it and worn out from drawing Ginsburg's 
fishes (on which she has been working for almost two weeks), and that she 
wo\ald be able to do much better work if she could get away for a few days 
I didn't say Anything. I'm rather callous to her hard-luck complaints. 
The whole trouble is that she doesn't realize how fortunate she is. 
Mr. Shoemaker has worked every Saturday afternoon since you 
left until at least five o'clock and last week until six. Each time he 
has told her that he is going to stay and that she can stay, too, if she 
wants to. She has not stayed one Saturday afternoon since you left, and 
yet she tries to hang on every evening. I'm getting very impatient with 
her. 
Well, this is a sad tale of woe, isn't it? You may have a 
hard time discouraging her from sticking around nights again when you 
get back. 
Sincerely, 
