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over the mountains into the plains of Casilinum。  A cohort of light

armed Numidians engaged the infantry of Quintus Fabius Maximus。 

Two battles and light skirmishing。  Romans repulsed with heavy losses。

                           I have the honour of being��

       Your special correspondent from the front��

                                               J。 Abbott



PS。 I know I'm not to expect any letters in return�察�and I've

been warned not to bother you with questions�察�but tell me�察�Daddy��

just this onceare you awfully old or just a little old�拭 �And are

you perfectly bald or just a little bald�拭 �It is very difficult

thinking about you in the abstract like a theorem in geometry。



Given a tall rich man who hates girls�察�but is very generous to one

quite impertinent girl�察�what does he look like��



R。S。V。P。





                                           19th December

Dear Daddy´Long´Legs��



You never answered my question and it was very important。



                               ARE YOU BALD��





I have it planned exactly what you look likevery satisfactorily

until I reach the top of your head�察�and then I AM stuck。  I can't

decide whether you have white hair or black hair or sort of sprinkly

grey hair or maybe none at all。



Here is your portrait��



But the problem is�察�shall I add some hair��



Would you like to know what colour your eyes are�拭 �They're grey��

and your eyebrows stick out like a porch roof ��beetling�察�they're

called in novels���察�and your mouth is a straight line with a tendency

to turn down at the corners。  Oh�察�you see�察�I know�  �You're a snappy

old thing with a temper。

       ��Chapel bell。��

                                               9。45 p。m。



I have a new unbreakable rule�此 �never�察�never to study at night no matter

how many written reviews are coming in the morning。  Instead�察�I read

just plain booksI have to�察�you know�察�because there are eighteen

blank years behind me。  You wouldn't believe�察�Daddy�察�what an abyss

of ignorance my mind is�察�I am just realizing the depths myself。 

The things that most girls with a properly assorted family and a home

and friends and a library know by absorption�察�I have never heard of。 

For example��



I never read Mother Goose or David Copperfield or Ivanhoe or

Cinderella or Blue Beard or Robinson Crusoe or Jane Eyre or Alice

in Wonderland or a word of Rudyard Kipling。  I didn't know that Henry

the Eighth was married more than once or that Shelley was a poet。 

I didn't know that people used to be monkeys and that the Garden

of Eden was a beautiful myth。  I didn't know that R。 L。 S。 stood

for Robert Louis Stevenson or that George Eliot was a lady。 

I had never seen a picture of the `Mona Lisa' and ��it's true but you

won't believe it�� I had never heard of Sherlock Holmes。



Now�察�I know all of these things and a lot of others besides��

but you can see how much I need to catch up。  And oh�察�but it's fun� �

I look forward all day to evening�察�and then I put an `engaged' on the

door and get into my nice red bath robe and furry slippers and pile

all the cushions behind me on the couch�察�and light the brass student

lamp at my elbow�察�and read and read and read one book isn't enough。 

I have four going at once。  Just now�察�they're Tennyson's poems and

Vanity Fair and Kipling's Plain Tales anddon't laughLittle Women。 

I find that I am the only girl in college who wasn't brought up on

Little Women。  I haven't told anybody though ��that WOULD stamp me

as queer��。 I just quietly went and bought it with 1。12 of my last

month's allowance�察�and the next time somebody mentions pickled limes��

I'll know what she is talking about��



��Ten o'clock bell。  This is a very interrupted letter。��





                                               Saturday

Sir��



I have the honour to report fresh explorations in the field of geometry。 

On Friday last we abandoned our former works in parallelopipeds

and proceeded to truncated prisms。  We are finding the road rough

and very uphill。





                                               Sunday



The Christmas holidays begin next week and the trunks are up。 

The corridors are so filled up that you can hardly get through��

and everybody is so bubbling over with excitement that studying is

getting left out。  I'm going to have a beautiful time in vacation��

there's another Freshman who lives in Texas staying behind��

and we are planning to take long walks and if there's any ice

learn to skate。  Then there is still the whole library to be read

and three empty weeks to do it in��



Goodbye�察�Daddy�察�I hope that you are feeling as happy as am。

                               Yours ever��

                                           Judy









PS。  Don't forget to answer my question。  If you don't want

the trouble of writing�察�have your secretary telegraph。  He can



just say��

                          Mr。 Smith is quite bald��



                                    or



                           Mr。 Smith is not bald��



                                    or



                         Mr。 Smith has white hair。





And you can deduct the twenty´five cents out of my allowance。



Goodbye till Januaryand a merry Christmas��





                                       Towards the end of

                                       the Christmas vacation。

                                       Exact date unknown



Dear Daddy´Long´Legs��



Is it snowing where you are�拭 �All the world that I see from my tower

is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop´corns。

It's late afternoonthe sun is just setting ��a cold yellow colour��

behind some colder violet hills�察�and I am up in my window seat

using the last light to write to you。



Your five gold pieces were a surprise�  �I'm not used to receiving

Christmas presents。  You have already given me such lots of things

everything I have�察�you knowthat I don't quite feel that I

deserve extras。  But I like them just the same。  Do you want to know

what I bought with my money��



I。 A silver watch in a leather case to wear on my wrist and get me

to recitations in time。



II。  Matthew Arnold's poems。



III。  A hot water bottle。



IV。  A steamer rug。  ��My tower is cold。��



V。 Five hundred sheets of yellow manuscript paper。  ��I'm going

to commence being an author pretty soon。��



VI。  A dictionary of synonyms。  ��To enlarge the author's vocabulary。��



VII。  ��I don't much like to confess this last item�察�but I will。��

A pair of silk stockings。



And now�察�Daddy�察�never say I don't tell all��



It was a very low motive�察�if you must know it�察�that prompted the

silk stockings。  Julia Pendleton comes into my room to do geometry��

and she sits cross´legged on the couch and wears silk stockings

every night。  But just waitas soon as she gets back from vacation

I shall go in and sit on her couch in my silk stockings。  You see��

Daddy�察�the miserable creature that I am but at least I'm honest��

and you knew already�察�from my asylum record�察�that I wasn't perfect��

didn't you��



To recapitulate ��that's the way the English instructor begins every

other sentence���察�I am very much obliged for my seven presents。 

I'm pretending to myself that they came in a box from my family

in California。  The watch is from father�察�the rug from mother��

the hot water bottle from grandmother who is always worrying for fear

I shall catch cold in this climateand the yellow paper from my

little brother Harry。  My sister Isabel gave me the silk stockings��

and Aunt Susan the Matthew Arnold poems�察�Uncle Harry ��little Harry is

named after him�� gave me the dictionary。  He wanted to send chocolates��

but I insisted on synonyms。



You don't object�察�do you�察�to playing the part of a composite family��



And now�察�shall I tell you about my vacation�察�or are you only interested

in my education as such�拭 �I hope you appreciate the delicate shade

of meaning in `as such'。 It is the latest addition to my vocabulary。



The girl from Texas is named Leonora Fenton。  ��Almost as funny

as Jerusha�察�isn't it�殖� I like her�察�but not so much as Sallie McBride��

I shall never like any one so much as Sallieexcept you。  I must

always like you the best of all�察�because you're my whole family

rolled into one。  Leonora and I and two Sophomores have walked 'cross

country every pleasant day and explored the whole neighbourhood��

dressed in short skirts and knit jackets and caps�察�and carrying shiny

sticks to whack things with。  Once we walked into townfour miles

and stopped at a restaurant where the college girls go for dinner。 

Broiled lobster ��35 cents���察�and for dessert�察�buckwheat cakes and maple

syrup ��15 cents��。 Nourishing and cheap。



It was such a lark�  �Especially for me�察�because it was so awfully

different from the asylumI feel like an escaped convict every

time I leave the campus。  Before I thought�察�I started to tell

the others what an experience I was having。  The cat was almost

out of the bag when I grabbed it by its tail and pulled it back。 

It's awfully hard for me not to tell everything I know。  I'm a very

confiding soul by nature�察�if I didn't have you to tell things to��

I'd burst。



We had a molasses candy pull last Friday evening�察�given by the

house matron of Fergussen to the left´behinds in the other halls。 

There were twenty´two of us altogether�察�Freshmen and Sophomores and

juniors and Seniors all united in amicable accord。  The kitchen is huge��

with copper pots and kettles hanging in rows on the stone wall

the littlest casserole among them about the size of a wash boiler。 

Four hundred girls live in Fergussen。  The chef�察�in a white cap

and apron�察�fetched out twenty´two other white caps and aprons

I can't imagine where he got so manyand we all turned ourselves

into cooks。



It was great fun�察�though I have seen better candy。  When it was

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