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Daddy-Long-Legs - Jean Webster · Classic Drama Audiobooks

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  Speaker 1: Mourning people wake up for peace and quiet. McDonald's breakfast people,
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  Speaker 1: we wake up for the sweet rush of getting that warm,
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  Speaker 1: delicious breakfast right before it ends.
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  Speaker 2: Crush your morning gulls with a steak, egg and cheese
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  Speaker 2: bagel or any breakfast sandwich, and snag another one for
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  Speaker 2: just a buck with a buy one, get one deal
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  Speaker 2: only in the McDonald's ev limited time only at participating
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  Speaker 2: McDonald's valid ones per day must out into rewards.
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  Speaker 3: Bottom Steady Long Legs by Jean Webster, Part one, Blue Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: The first Wednesday in every month was a perfectly awful day,
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  Speaker 3: a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage,
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  Speaker 3: and forgotten with haste. Every floor must be spotless, every
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  Speaker 3: chair dustless, and every bed without a wrinkle. Ninety seven
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  Speaker 3: squirming little orphans must be scrubbed, combed, and buttoned into
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  Speaker 3: freshly starched ginghams, and all ninety seven reminded of their
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  Speaker 3: manners and told to say yes sir, no sir whenever
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  Speaker 3: a trustee spoke. It was a distressing time, and poor
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  Speaker 3: Jerusha Abbot, being the oldest orphan, had to bear the
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  Speaker 3: brunt of it. But this particular First Wednesday, like its
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  Speaker 3: predecessors finally dragged itself to a close. Jerusha escaped from
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  Speaker 3: the pantry where she had been making sandwiches for the
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  Speaker 3: asylum's guests, and turned upstairs to accomplish her regular work.
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  Speaker 3: Her special care was Room F, where eleven little tots
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  Speaker 3: from four to seven occupied eleven little cots sat in
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  Speaker 3: a row. Jerusha assembled her charges, straightened their rumpled frocks,
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  Speaker 3: wiped their noses, and started them in an orderly and
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  Speaker 3: willing line towards the dining room to engage themselves for
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  Speaker 3: a blessed half hour with bread and milk and prune pudding.
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  Speaker 3: Then she dropped down on the window seat and leaned
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  Speaker 3: throbbing temples against the cool glass. She had been on
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  Speaker 3: her feet since five that morning, doing everybody's bidding, Scolded
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  Speaker 3: and hurried by a nervous matron, missus Lippett, behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 3: did not always maintain that calm and pompous dignity with
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  Speaker 3: which she faced an audience of trustees and lady visitors.
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  Speaker 3: Jerusha gazed out across a broad stretch of frozen lawn,
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  Speaker 3: beyond the tall iron paling that marked the confines of
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  Speaker 3: the asylum, down undulating ridges, sprinkled with country estates to
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  Speaker 3: the spires of the village, rising from the midst of
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  Speaker 3: bare trees. The day was ended quite successfully, so far
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  Speaker 3: as she knew. The trustees and the visiting committee had
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  Speaker 3: made their rounds and read the reports and drunk their tea,
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  Speaker 3: and now were hurrying home to their own cheerful firesides
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  Speaker 3: to forget their bothersome little charges for another month. Jerusha
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  Speaker 3: leaned forward, watching with curiosity and a touch of wistfulness,
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  Speaker 3: the stream of carriages and automobiles that rolled out of
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  Speaker 3: the asylum gates. In imagination, she followed first one equipage,
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  Speaker 3: then another, to the big houses dotted along the hillside.
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  Speaker 3: She pictured herself in a fur coat and a velvet
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  Speaker 3: hat trimmed with feathers, leaning back in the seat and
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  Speaker 3: nonchalantly murmuring home to the driver. But on the door
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  Speaker 3: sill of her home, the picture grew blurred. Jerusha had
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  Speaker 3: an imagination, an imagination. Missus Lippett told her that would
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  Speaker 3: get her into trouble if she didn't take care. But
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  Speaker 3: keen as it was, it could not carry her beyond
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  Speaker 3: the front porches of the houses she would enter. Poor, eager, adventurous,
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  Speaker 3: little Jerusha, in all her seventeen years, had never stepped
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  Speaker 3: inside an ordinary house. She could not picture the daily
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  Speaker 3: routine of those other human beings who carried on their
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  Speaker 3: lives undiscommoded by orphans. Jerusha, Abbit, you are wanted in
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  Speaker 3: the office, and I think you'd better hurry up. Tommy Dylan,
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  Speaker 3: who had joined the choir, came singing up the stairs
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  Speaker 3: and down the corridor, his chant growing louder as he
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  Speaker 3: approached Room f Jerusha wrenched herself from the window and
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  Speaker 3: refaced the troubles of life. Who wants me? She cut
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  Speaker 3: into Tommy's chant with a note of sharp anxiety. Missus
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  Speaker 3: lippid in the office, and I think she's mad ah Man.
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  Speaker 3: Tommy piously intoned, but his accent was not entirely malicious.
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  Speaker 3: Even the most hardened little orphan felt sympathy for an
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  Speaker 3: airing sister who was summoned to the office to face
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  Speaker 3: an annoyed matron. And Tommy liked Jerusha, even if she
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  Speaker 3: did sometimes jerk him by the arm and nearly scrub
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  Speaker 3: his nose off. Jerusha went without comment, but with two
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  Speaker 3: parallel lines on her brow. What could have gone wrong?
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  Speaker 3: She wondered, were the sandwiches not thin enough were there
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  Speaker 3: shat and the nutcakes. Had a lady visitor seen the
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  Speaker 3: hole in Susie Hawthorne's stocking had oh horrors. One of
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  Speaker 3: the cherubic little babies in her own room f sauced
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  Speaker 3: a trustee. The long lower hall had not been lighted,
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  Speaker 3: and as she came downstairs a last trustee stood on
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  Speaker 3: the point of departure in the open door that led
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  Speaker 3: to the porte cochere. Jerusha caught only a fleeting impression
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  Speaker 3: of the man, and the impression consisted entirely of tallness.
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  Speaker 3: He was waving his arm towards an automobile waiting in
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  Speaker 3: the curved drive. As it sprang into motion and approached
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  Speaker 3: head on. For an instant, the glaring headlights threw his
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  Speaker 3: shadow sharply against the wall. Inside the shadow pictured grotesquely
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  Speaker 3: elongated legs and arms that ran along the floor and
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  Speaker 3: up the wall of the corridor. It looked for all
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  Speaker 3: the world like a huge, wavering daddy long legs. Jerusha's
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  Speaker 3: anxious frown gave place to quick laughter. She was by
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  Speaker 3: nature a sunny soul and had always snatched the tiniest
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  Speaker 3: excuse to be amused. If one could derive any sort
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  Speaker 3: of entertainment out of the oppressive fact of a trustee.
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  Speaker 3: It was something unexpected to the good. She advanced to
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  Speaker 3: the office, quite cheered by the tiny episode, and presented
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  Speaker 3: a smiling face to missus Lippet. To her surprise, the
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  Speaker 3: matron was also, if not exactly smiling, at least appreciably affable.
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  Speaker 3: She wore an expression almost as pleasant as the one
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  Speaker 3: she donned for visitors. Sit down, Jerusha, I have something
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  Speaker 3: to say to you. Jerusha dropped into the nearest chair
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  Speaker 3: and waited with a touch of breathlessness. An automobile flashed
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  Speaker 3: past the window. Missus Lippett glanced after it. Did you
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  Speaker 3: notice the gentleman who was just gone? I saw his back.
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  Speaker 3: He is one of our most affluential trustees and has
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  Speaker 3: given large sums of money towards the asylum's support. I
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  Speaker 3: am not at liberty to mention his name, expressly stipulated
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  Speaker 3: that he was to remain unknown. Jerusha's eyes widened slightly.
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  Speaker 3: She was not accustomed to being summoned to the office
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  Speaker 3: to discuss the eccentricities of trustees with the matron. This
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  Speaker 3: gentleman has taken an interest in several of our boys.
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  Speaker 3: You remember Charles Benton and Henry Freese. They were both
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  Speaker 3: sent through college by mister this trustee, and both have repaid,
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  Speaker 3: with hard working success, the money that was so generously
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  Speaker 3: expended other payment. The gentleman does not wish Heretofore his
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  Speaker 3: philanthropies have been directed solely toward the boys. I have
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  Speaker 3: never been able to interest him in the slightest degree
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  Speaker 3: in any of the girls in the institution, no matter
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  Speaker 3: how deserving. He does not I may tell you care
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  Speaker 3: for girls, no, ma'am, jerushe murmured, since some replies seemed
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  Speaker 3: to be expected at this point. Today, at the regular meeting,
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  Speaker 3: the question of your future was brought up. Missus Lippet
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  Speaker 3: allowed a moment of silence to fall, then resumed in
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  Speaker 3: a slow, placid manner, extremely trying to her hearers suddenly
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  Speaker 3: tightened nerves. Usually, as you know, the children are not
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  Speaker 3: kept after they are sixteen. But an exception was made
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  Speaker 3: in your case. You had finished our school at fourteen,
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  Speaker 3: and having done so well in your studies, not always,
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  Speaker 3: I must say, in your conduct, it was determined to
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  Speaker 3: let you go on in the village high school. Now
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  Speaker 3: you are finished that and of course, the asylum cannot
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  Speaker 3: be responsible any longer for your support. As it is,
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  Speaker 3: you have had two years more than most. Missus Lippett
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  Speaker 3: overlooked the fact that Jerusha had worked hard for her
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  Speaker 3: board during those two years, that the convenience of the
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  Speaker 3: asylum had come first and her education second, that on
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  Speaker 3: days like the present she was kept at home to scrub.
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  Speaker 3: As I say, the question of your future was brought up,
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  Speaker 3: and your record was discussed, thoroughly discussed. Missus Lippet brought
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  Speaker 3: accusing eyes to bear upon the prisoner in the dock,
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  Speaker 3: and the prisoner looked guilty because it seemed to be expected,
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  Speaker 3: not because she could remember any strikingly black pages in
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  Speaker 3: her record. Of course, the usual disposition of one in
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  Speaker 3: your place would be to put you in a position
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  Speaker 3: where you could begin to work. But you have done
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  Speaker 3: well in school in certain branches. It seems that your
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  Speaker 3: work in English has even been brilliant. Miss Pritchard, who
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  Speaker 3: is on our visiting committee, is also on the school board.
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  Speaker 3: She has been talking with your rhetoric teacher and made
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  Speaker 3: a speech in your favor. She also read aloud an
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  Speaker 3: essay that you had written entitled Blue Wednesday Jerusha's guilty
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  Speaker 3: expression this time was not assumed. It seemed to me
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  Speaker 3: that you showed little gratitude in holding up to ridicule
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  Speaker 3: the institution that has done so much for you. Had
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  Speaker 3: you not managed to be funny, I doubt if you
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  Speaker 3: would have been forgiven. But fortunately for you, mister that
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  Speaker 3: is the gentleman who has just gone appears to have
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  Speaker 3: an immoderate sense of humor. On the strength of that
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  Speaker 3: impertinent paper, he has offered to send you to college.
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  Speaker 3: To college, Jerusha's eyes grew big. Missus Lippett nodded. He
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  Speaker 3: waited to discuss the terms with me. They are unusual.
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  Speaker 3: The gentleman, I may say, is erratic. He believes that
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  Speaker 3: you have originality, and he is planning to educate you
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  Speaker 3: to become a writer. A writer. Jerusale's mind was numbed.
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  Speaker 3: She could only repeat missus Lippett's words. That is his wish.
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  Speaker 3: Whether anything will come of it, the future will show.
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  Speaker 3: He is giving you a very liberal allowance, almost for
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  Speaker 3: a girl who had never had any experience and taken
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  Speaker 3: care of money. Too liberal. But he planned the matter
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  Speaker 3: in detail, and I did not feel free to make
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  Speaker 3: any suggestions. You are to remain here through the summer,
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  Speaker 3: and Miss Pritchard has kindly offered to superintend your outfit.
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  Speaker 3: Your board and tuition will be paid directly to the college,
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  Speaker 3: and you will receive, in addition, during the four years
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  Speaker 3: you are there, an allowance of thirty five dollars a month.
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  Speaker 3: This will enable you to enter on the same standing
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  Speaker 3: as the other students. The money will be sent to
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  Speaker 3: you by the Gentleman's private secretary once a month, and
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  Speaker 3: in return you will write a letter of acknowledgment once
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  Speaker 3: a month. That is, you are not to thank him
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  Speaker 3: for the money. He doesn't care to have that mentioned.
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  Speaker 3: But you are to write a letter telling of the
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  Speaker 3: progress in your studies and the details of your daily life,
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  Speaker 3: just such a letter as you would write to your
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  Speaker 3: parents if they were living. These letters will be addressed
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  Speaker 3: to mister John Smith and will be sent in care
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  Speaker 3: of the secretary. The gentleman's name is not John Smith,
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  Speaker 3: but he prefers to remain unknown to you. He will
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  Speaker 3: never be anything but John Smith. His reason in requiring
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  Speaker 3: the letters is that he thinks nothing so foster's facility
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  Speaker 3: in literary expression as letter writing. Since you have no
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  Speaker 3: family with whom to correspond. He desires you to write
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  Speaker 3: in this way. Also, he wishes to keep track of
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  Speaker 3: your progress. He will never answer your letters, or, in
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  Speaker 3: the slightest particular, take any notice of them. He detests
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  Speaker 3: letter writing and does not wish you to become a burden.
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  Speaker 3: If any point should ever arise where an answer would
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  Speaker 3: seem to be imperative, such as in the event of
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  Speaker 3: your being expelled, which I trust will not occur, you
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  Speaker 3: may correspond with mister Griggs, his secretary. These monthly letters
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  Speaker 3: are absolutely obligatory on your part. They are the only
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  Speaker 3: payment that mister Smith requires, so you must be as
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  Speaker 3: punctilious in sending them as though it were a bill
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  Speaker 3: that you were paying. I hope that they will always
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  Speaker 3: be respectful in tone and will reflect credit on your training.
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  Speaker 3: You must remember that you are writing to a trustee
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  Speaker 3: of the John Greerholm Jerushe's eyes longingly sought the door.
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  Speaker 3: Her head was in a whirl of excitement, and she
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  Speaker 3: wished only to escape from Missus Lippet's platitudes and think.
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  Speaker 3: She rose and took a tentative step backwards. Missus Slippett
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  Speaker 3: detained her with his gesture. It was an oratorical opportunity
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  Speaker 3: not to be slighted. I trust that you are properly
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  Speaker 3: grateful for this very rare good fortune that has befallen you.
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  Speaker 3: Not many girls in your position ever have such an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to rise in the world. You must always remember. Ay, yes, ma'am,
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  Speaker 3: thank you. I think if that's all, I must go
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  Speaker 3: and sew a patch on Freddy Perkins's trousers. The door
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  Speaker 3: closed behind her, and Missus Lippett watched it with dropped jaw.
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  Speaker 3: Her preorientation in mid air. End of Part one, Part two,
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  Speaker 3: The Letters of Miss Jerusha Abbot to mister Daddy Longlegs
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  Speaker 3: Smith two fifteen Ferguson Hall, twenty fourth September. Dear kind
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  Speaker 3: trustee who sends orphans to college. Here I am. I
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  Speaker 3: traveled yesterday for four hours in a train. It's a
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  Speaker 3: funny sensation, isn't it. I never wrote in one before.
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  Speaker 3: College is the biggest, most bewildering place I get lost
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  Speaker 3: whenever I leave my room. I will write you a
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  Speaker 3: description later when I'm feeling less muddled. Also, I will
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  Speaker 3: tell you about my lessons. Classes don't begin until Monday morning,
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  Speaker 3: and this is Saturday night. But I wanted to write
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  Speaker 3: a letter first, just to get acquainted. It seems queer
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  Speaker 3: to be writing letters to somebody you don't know. It
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  Speaker 3: seems queer for me to be writing letters at all.
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  Speaker 3: I have never written more than three or four in
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  Speaker 3: my life, so please overlook it if these are not
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  Speaker 3: a model kind. Before leaving yesterday morning, missus Lippett and
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  Speaker 3: I had a very serious talk. She told me how
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  Speaker 3: to behave all the rest of my life, and especially
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  Speaker 3: how to behave towards the kind gentleman who is doing
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  Speaker 3: so much for me. I must take care to be
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  Speaker 3: very respectful. But how can one be very respectful to
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  Speaker 3: a person who wishes to be called John Smith? Why
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  Speaker 3: couldn't you have picked a name with a little personality.
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  Speaker 3: I might as well write letters to dear hitching posts
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  Speaker 3: or dear clothes prop I've been thinking about you a
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  Speaker 3: great deal this summer. Having somebody taken interest in me
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  Speaker 3: after all these years makes me feel as though I
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  Speaker 3: have found a sort of family. It seems as though
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  Speaker 3: I belonged to somebody now, and it's a very comfortable sensation.
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  Speaker 3: I must say, however, that when I think about you,
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  Speaker 3: my imagination has very little to work upon. There are
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  Speaker 3: just three things that I know. One you are tall,
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  Speaker 3: Two you are rich. Three you hate girls. I suppose
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  Speaker 3: I might call you dear mister girl hater, only that's
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  Speaker 3: rather insulting to me, or dear mister rich man. But
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  Speaker 3: that's insulting to you, as though money were the only
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  Speaker 3: important thing about you. Besides being rich is such a
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  Speaker 3: very external quality. Maybe you won't stay rich all your life.
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  Speaker 3: Lots of very clever men get smashed up in Wall Street,
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  Speaker 3: but at least you will stay tall all your life.
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  Speaker 3: So I've decided to call you Daddy long Legs. I
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  Speaker 3: hope you won't mind. It's just a private pet name.
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  Speaker 3: We won't tell missus Lippett. The ten o'clock bell is
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  Speaker 3: going to ring in two minutes. Our day is divided
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  Speaker 3: into sections by bells. We eat and sleep and study
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  Speaker 3: by bells. It's very enlivening. I feel like a fire
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  Speaker 3: horse all the time. There it goes lights out. Good night.
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  Speaker 3: Observe with what precision I obey rules due to my
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  Speaker 3: training in the John Greer Home. Yours, very respectfully, Jerusha
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  Speaker 3: Abbott to mister Daddy Long Lakes Smith, first October, Dear
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  Speaker 3: Daddy Long legs. I love college, and I love you
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  Speaker 3: for sending me. I'm very, very happy, and so excited
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  Speaker 3: every moment of the time that I can scarcely sleep.
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  Speaker 3: You can't imagine how different it is from the John
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  Speaker 3: Greer Home. I never dreamed there was such a place
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  Speaker 3: in the world. I'm feeling sorry for everybody who isn't
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  Speaker 3: a girl and who can't come here. I am sure
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  Speaker 3: the college you attended when you were a boy couldn't
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  Speaker 3: have been so nice. My room is up in a
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  Speaker 3: tower that used to be the Contagious Ward before they
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  Speaker 3: built the new infirmary. There are three other girls on
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  Speaker 3: the same floor of the tower, a senior who wears
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  Speaker 3: spectacles and is always asking us pleased to be a
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  Speaker 3: little more quiet, and two freshmen named Sallie mc bride
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  Speaker 3: and Julia Rutledge Pendleton. Sallie has red hair and a
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  Speaker 3: turned up nose and is quite friendly. Julia comes from
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  Speaker 3: one of the first families in New York and hasn't
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  Speaker 3: noticed me yet. They roomed together, and the senior and
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  Speaker 3: I have singles. Usually freshmen can't get singles, they are
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  Speaker 3: very scarce, but I got one without even asking. I
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  Speaker 3: suppose the registrar didn't think it would be right to
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  Speaker 3: ask a properly brought up girl to room with a fire.
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  Speaker 3: You see, there are advantages. My room is on the
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  Speaker 3: northwest corner, with two windows and a view. After you've
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  Speaker 3: lived in a ward for eighteen years with twenty room mates,
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  Speaker 3: it is RESTful to be alone. This is the first
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  Speaker 3: chance I've ever had to get acquainted with Jerusha Abbot.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm going to like her. Do you think
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  Speaker 3: you are? Tuesday they are organizing the freshman basketball team,
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  Speaker 3: and there's just a chance that I shall get in it.
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  Speaker 3: I am little, of course, but terribly quick and wiry
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  Speaker 3: and tough. While the others are hopping about in the air,
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  Speaker 3: I can dodge under their feet and grab the ball.
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  Speaker 3: It's loads of fun practicing out in the athletic field
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  Speaker 3: in the afternoon, with the trees all red and yellow,
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  Speaker 3: and the air full of the smell of burning leaves,
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  Speaker 3: and everybody laughing and shouting. These are the happiest girls
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  Speaker 3: I ever saw, and I am the happiest of all.
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  Speaker 3: I meant to write a long letter and tell you
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  Speaker 3: all the things I'm learning. Missus Lippett said you wanted
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  Speaker 3: to know, but seventh hour has just rung, and in
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  Speaker 3: ten minutes I'm due with the athletic field and gymnasium clothes.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you hope I'll get in the team? Yours always,
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  Speaker 3: Jerusha Abbot p s. Nine o'clock. Sally mac bride just
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  Speaker 3: poked her head in at my door. This is what
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  Speaker 3: she said. I am so homesick that I simply can't
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  Speaker 3: stand it. Do you feel that way? I smiled a
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  Speaker 3: little and said no, I thought I could pull through
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  Speaker 3: at least. Homesickness is one disease that I've escaped. I
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  Speaker 3: never heard of anybody being asylum sick.
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  Speaker 4: Did you.
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  Speaker 3: Tenth October? Dear Daddy longlegs, did you ever hear of
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Michael Angelo? He was a famous artist who lived in
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Italy in the Middle Ages. Everybody in English literature seemed
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: to know about him, and the whole class laughed because
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: I thought he was an archangel. It sounds like an archangel,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: doesn't he. The trouble with college is that you are
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: expected to know such a lot of things you've never learned.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: It's very embarrassing at times. But now when the girls
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: talk about things that I have never heard of, I
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: just keep still and look them up in the encyclopedia.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I made an awful mistake the first day. Somebody mentioned
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Maurice Modlink, and I asked if she was a freshman.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: That joke has gone all over college. But anyway, I'm
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: just as bright in glass as any of the others,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: and brighter than some of them. Do you care to
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: know how I've furnished my room. It's a symphony in
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: brown and yellow.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: The wall was.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Tinted buff, and I've bought yellow denim curtains and cushions,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: and a mahogany desk second hand for three dollars, and
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: a ratan chair and a brown rug with an ink
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: spot in the middle. I stand the chair over the spot.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: The windows are high up, you can't look out from
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: an ordinary seat, but I unscrewed the looking glass from
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: the back of the bureau, upholstered the top and moved
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: it up against the window. It's just the right height
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: for a window seat. You pull out the drawers like
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: steps and walk up very comfortable. Sallie McBride helped me
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: choose the things at the Senior auction. She has lived
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: in a house all her life and knows about furnishing
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: you can't imagine what fun it is to shop and
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: pay with a real five dollar bill and get some
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: change when you've never had more than a few cents
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: in your life. I assure you, Daddy, dear, I do
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: appreciate that allowance. Sallly is the most entertaining person in
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: the world, and Julia Rutlitch Pendleton the least. So it's
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: queer what a mixture the registrar can make. In the
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: matter of roommates. Sallie thinks everything is funny, even flunking,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: and Julia is bored at everything. She never makes the
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: slightest effort to be amiable. She believes that if you
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: are a Pendleton, that fact Loane admits you to Heaven
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: without any further examination. Julia and I were born to
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: be enemies. And now I suppose you've been waiting very
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: impatiently to hear what I am learning. One Latin Second
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Punic War, Hannibal and his forces pitched camp at Lake
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Tresimeneus last night. They prepared an ambuscade for the Romans,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: and a battle took place at the fourth Watch this morning.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Romans in Retreat two French twenty four pages of the
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: three Musketeers and third conjunction irregular verbs. Three Geometry finished cylinders,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: now doing cones. Four English studying exposition. My style improves
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: daily in clearness and brevity. Five Physiology reached the digestive system,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: bile and the pancreas. Next time, yours the way to
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: being educated? Jerusha Abbot p s. I hope you never
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: touch alcohol, Daddy. It does dreadful things to your liver. Wednesday,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Dear Daddy, longlegs. I've changed my name. I'm still Jerusha
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: in the catalog, but I'm Judy everywhere else. It's really
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: too bad, isn't it to have to give yourself the
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: only pet name you ever had. I didn't make up
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: the Judy, though. That's what Freddy Perkins used to call
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: me before he could talk plainly. I wish missus Lippett
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: would use a little more ingenuity about choosing baby names.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: She gets the last names out of the telephone book.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: You'll find Abbot on the first page, and she picks
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: the Christian names up anywhere. She got Jerusha from a tombstone.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I've always hated it, but I rather like Judy. It's
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: such a silly name. It belongs to the kind of girl.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: I'm not a sweet little blue eyed thing petted and
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: spoiled by all the family, who romps her way through
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: life without any cares. Wouldn't it be nice to be
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: like that? Whatever faults I may have, no one can
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: ever accuse me of having been spoiled by my family,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: but it's great fun to pretend I've been. In the future,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: please always address me as Judy. Do you want to
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: know something? I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: real kid gloves with five fingers. I take them out
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: and try them on every little while. It's all I
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: can do not to wear them to glasses, dinner, bell,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: goodbye Friday. What do you think?
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: Daddy?
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: The English instructor said that my last paper shows an
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: unusual amount of originality. She did truly, those were her words.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: It doesn't seem possible, does it, considering the eighteen years
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: of training that I've had. The aim of the John Home,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: as you doubtless know and heartily approve of, is to
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: turn the ninety seven orphans into ninety seven twins. The
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: unusual artistic ability which I exhibit was developed at an
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: early age through drawing chalk pictures of Missus Lippett on
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: the woodshed door. I hope that I don't hurt your
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: feelings when I criticize the home of my youth. But
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: you have the upper hand, you know. For if I
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: become too impertinent, you can always stop payment of your checks.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: That isn't a very polite thing to say, but you
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: can't expect me to have any manners. A found le
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: An asylum isn't a young lady's finishing school, you know, daddy.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: It isn't the work that is going to be hard
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: in college. It's the play. Half the time, I don't
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: know what the girls are talking about. Their jokes seem
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: the language. It's a miserable feeling. I've had it all
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: my life. At the high school, the girls would stand
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: in groups and just look at me. I was queer
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: and different, and everybody knew it. I could feel John
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Greer Home written on my face, and when a few
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: charitable ones would make a point of coming up and
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: saying something polite, I hated every one of them, the
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: charitable ones. Most of all, nobody here knows that I
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: was brought up in an asylum. I told Sallie McBride
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: that my father and mother were dead and that a
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: kind old gentleman was sending me to college, which is
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: entirely true so far as it goes. I don't want
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: you to think I'm a coward, but I do want
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: to be like the other girls, and that dreadful home
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: looming over my childhood is the one great big difference.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: If I can turn my back on that and shut
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: out the remembrance, I think I might be just as
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: desirable as any other girl. I don't believe there's any
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: real underneath difference, do you anyway? Sallie mc bride likes me.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Yours ever, Judy Abbot Nay Jerusha, Saturday morning. I've just
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: been reading this letter over and it sounds pretty uncheerful.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: But can't you guess that I have a special topic
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: do Monday morning, and a review in geometry and a
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: very sneezy cold Sunday. I forgot to post this yesterday,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: so I will add an indignant postcrip. We had a
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: bishop this morning, and what do you think he said?
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: The most beneficent promise made us in the Bible? Is
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: this the poor ye have always with you? They were
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: put here in order to keep us charitable. The poor
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: please observe being a sort of useful domestic animal. If
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I hadn't grown into such a perfect lady, I should
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: have gone up after service and told him what I thought.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Twenty fifth October, you're daddy long legs. I'm in the
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: basketball team, and you ought to see the bruise on
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: my left shoulder. It's blue and mahogany with little streaks
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: of orange. Julia Pendleton tried for the team, but she
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: didn't get in.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Hooray.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: You see what a mean disposition I have. College gets
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: nicer and nicer. I like the girls and the teachers,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: and the classes in the campus, and the things to eat.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: We have ice cream twice a week and we never
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: have corn meal mush. You only wanted to hear from
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: me once a month, didn't you, And I've been peppering
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: you with letters every few days. But I've been so
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: excited about all these new adventures that I must talk
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: to somebody, and you're the only one I know. Please
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: excuse my exuberance. I'll settle pretty soon. If my letters
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: bore you, you can always toss them into the waste basket.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: I promise not to write another till the middle of November. Yours,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: most loquaciously, Judy Abbot, fifteenth November. Dear Daddy long legs,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: listen to what I've learned to day. The area of
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: the convex surface of this frustrum of a regular pyramid
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: is half the product of the sum of the perimeters
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: of its bases by the altitude of either of its trapezoids.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: It doesn't sound true, but it is. I can prove it.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: You've never heard about my clothes, have you, Daddy. Six dresses,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: all new and beautiful and bought for me, not handed
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: down from somebody bigger. Perhaps you don't realize what a
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: climax that makes in the career of an orthan. You
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: gave them to me, and I am very, very very
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: much obliged. It's a fine thing to be educated, but
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: nothing compared to the dizzying experience of owning six new dresses.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Miss Pritchard, who is on the visiting committee, picked them out,
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: not mislippet. Thank goodness, I have an evening dress, pink
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: maul over silk. I'm perfectly beautiful in that, and a
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: blue church dress and a dinner dress of red veiling
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: with oriental trimming makes me look like a gypsy, and
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: another of rose colored shallie, and a gray street suit,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: and an everyday dress for classes. That wouldn't be an
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Jerusha Abbot. Oh my. I suppose you're thinking now what
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: a frivolous, shallow little beast she is, and what a
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: waste of money to educate a girl. But Daddy, if
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: you'd been dressed in checked Ginghams all your life, you'd
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: appreciate how I feel. And when I started in the
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: high school, I entered upon another period even worse than
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: the checked Gingham's, the poor box. You can't know how
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: I dreaded appearing in school in those miserable, poor box dresses.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: I was perfectly sure to be put down in class
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: next to the girl who first owned my dress, and
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: she would whisper and giggle and point it out to
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: the others. The bitterness of wearing your enemies cast off
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: clothes eats into your soul. If I wore silk stockings
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: for the rest of my life, I don't believe I
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: could obliterate the scar latest war bulletin news from the
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: scene of action at the Fourth Watch on Thursday, the
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: thirteenth of November, Hannibal routed the advance guard of the
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Romans and led the Carthaginian forces over the mountains into
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: the plains of Casilinum. A cohort of light armed Numidians
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: engaged the infantry of Quintus Fabus maximus two battles and
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: light skirmishing Romans repulsed with heavy losses. I have the
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: honor of being your special correspondent from the front, j
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Abbott p S. I know I'm not to expect any
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: letters in return, and I've been warned not to bother
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: you with questions. But tell me, Daddy, just this once.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Are you awfully old or just a little old? And
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: are you perfectly bald or just a little bald? It
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: is very difficult thinking about you in the abstract, Like
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: a theorem in geometry. Given a tall rich man who
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: hates girls but is very generous to one quite impertinent girl,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: what does he look like? R?
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: S v P.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Nineteenth December. Dear Daddy long Legs, you never answered my
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: question and it was very important. Are you bald? I
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: have it planned exactly what you look like, very satisfactorily
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: until I reach the top of your head, and then
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I am stuck. I can't decide whether you have white
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: hair or black hair, or sort of sprinkling gray hair,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: or maybe none at all. Here is your portrait. But
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: the problem is shall I add some hair? Would you
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: like to know what color your eyes are? They're gray?
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: And your eyebrows stick out like a porch roof beetling
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: their called in novels. And your mouth is a straight
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: line with a tendency to turn down at the corners.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Oh you see, I know you're a snappy old thing
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: with a temper. Chapel Bell nine forty five p m.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: I have a new unbreakable rule. Never never to study
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: at night, no matter how many written reviews are coming
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: in the morning. Instead, I read just plain books. I
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: have to, you know, because there are eighteen blank years
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: behind me. You wouldn't believe, Daddy, what an abyss of
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: ignorance my mind is. I am just realizing the depths myself,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: the things that most girls with a properly assorted family
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: and a home and friends in a library know by
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: absorption I have never heard of. For example, I never
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: read Mother Goose or David Copperfield or Ivan Hoe, or
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Cinderella or Bluebeard or Robinson Crusoe or Jane Eyre or
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Alice in Wonderland, or a word of Rudyard Kipling. I
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: didn't know that Henry the Eighth was married more than once,
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: or that Shelley was a poet. I didn't know that
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: people used to be monkeys, and that the Garden of
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Eden was a beautiful myth. I didn't know that R. L.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: S stood for Robert Louis Stevenson, or that George Eliot
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: was a lady. I had never seen a picture of
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: them own Elissa, And it's true, but you won't believe it.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I had never heard of Sherlock Holmes. Now I know
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: all these things, and a lot of others besides, but
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: you can see how much I need to catch up.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: And oh but it's fun. I look forward all day
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: to evening, and then I put an engaged on the door,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: and get into my nice red bathrobe and furry slippers,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: and pile all the cushions behind me on the couch
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: and light the brass a student lamp at my elbow
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: and read, and read and read. One book isn't enough.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: I have four going at once just now. They are
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Tennyson's Poems, and Vanity Fair and Kipling's Plain Tails and
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: don't Laugh Little Women. I find that I am the
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: only girl in college who wasn't brought up on little women.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: I haven't told anybody, though that would stamp me as queer.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: I just quietly went and bought it with a dollar
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: twelve of my last month's allowance. And the next time
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: somebody mentions pickled limes, I'll know what she is talking about.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: Ten o'clock bell. This is a very interrupted letter Saturday, Sir,
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: I have the honor to report fresh explorations in the
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: field of geometry. On Friday last we abandoned our former
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: works in parallela pie peds and proceeded to truncated prisms.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: We are finding the road rough and a very uphill Sunday.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: The Christmas holidays begin next week, and the trunks are up.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: The corridors are so filled up that you can hardly
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: get through, and everybody is so bubbling over with excitement
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: that studying is getting left out. I'm going to have
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: a beautiful time in vacation. There's another freshman who lives
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: in Texas staying behind, and we are planning to take
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: long walks, and if there's any ice learned to skate,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: then there is still the whole library to be read
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: and three empty weeks to do it in. Goodbye, Daddy,
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I hope that you are feeling as happy as I am.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Yours ever, Judy PS, don't forget to answer my question.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: If you don't want the trouble of writing, have your
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: secretary telegraph. He can just say mister Smith is quite bald,
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: or mister Smith is not bald, or mister Smith has
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: white hair, and you can deduct the twenty five cents
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: out of my allowance. Goodbye till January and a merry Christmas.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: End of Part two, Part three towards the end of
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: the Christmas vacation exact date unknown. Dear Daddy long Legs.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Is it snowing where you are? All the world that
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: I see from my tower is draped in white, and
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: the flakes are coming down as big as popcorns. It's
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: late afternoon. The sun is just setting a cold yellow
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: color behind some colder violet hills, and I am up
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: in my window seat using the last light to write
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: to you. Your five gold pieces were surprise. I'm not
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: used to receiving Christmas presents. You have already given me
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: such lots of things. Everything I have. You know that
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: I don't quite feel that I deserve extras, but I
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: like them just the same. You want to know what
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: I bought with my money? Number one A silver watch
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: in a leather case to wear on my wrist and
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: get me to recitations in time. Number two Matthew Arnold's poems.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Number three a hot water bottle. Number four a steamer rug.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: My tower is cold. Number five. Five hundred sheets of
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: yellow manuscript paper. I'm going to commence being an author
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: pretty soon. Number six. A dictionary of synonyms to enlarge
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: the author's vocabulary. Number seven. I don't much like to
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: confess this last item, but I will. A pair of
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: silk stockings. And now, Daddy never say, I don't tell all.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: It was a very low motive, if you must know it,
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: that prompted the silk stockings. Julia Pendleton comes into my
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: room to do geometry, and she sits cross legged on
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: the couch and wears silk stockings every night. But just wait,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: as soon as she gets back from vacation, I shall
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: go in and sit on her couch in my silk stockings.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: You see, Daddy, It's a miserable creature that I am,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: But at least I'm honest. And you knew already from
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: my asylum record that I wasn't perfect. Didn't you to recapitulate?
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: That's the way the English instructor begins every other sentence.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: I am very much obliged for my seven presents. I'm
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: pretending to myself that they came in a box from
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: my family in California. The watch is from father, the
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: rug from mother, the hot water bottle from grandmother, who
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: is always worrying for fear I shall catch cold in
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: this climate. And the yellow paper from my little brother Harry.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: My sister Isabel gave me the silk stockings, and Aunt
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Susan the Matthew Arnold poems. Uncle Harry, little Harry is
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: named after him, gave me the dictionary. He wanted to
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: send chocolates, but I insisted on synonyms. You don't object,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: do you to playing the part of a composite family?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: And now shall I tell you about my vacation or
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: are you only interested in my education? As such. I
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: hope you appreciate the delicate shade of men in as such.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: It is the latest addition to my vocabulary. The girl
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: from Texas is named Lorona Fenton. Almost as funny as Drusha,
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: isn't it. I like her, but not so much as
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: Salie McBride. I shall never like anyone so much as Sally,
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: except you. I must always like you the best of all,
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: because you're my whole family rolled into one. Lorona and
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: I and two sophomores have walked cross country every pleasant
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: day and explored the whole neighborhood, dressed in short skirts
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: and niche jackets and caps, and carrying shiny sticks to
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: whack things with. Once we walked into town four miles
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: and stopped at a restaurant where the college girls go
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: for dinner broiled lobster thirty five cents and for dessert
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: buckwheat cakes and maple syrup fifteen cents. Nourishing and cheap.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: It was such a lark, especially for me, because it
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: was so awfully different from the asylum. I feel like
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: an escaped convict every time I leave the campus. Before
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I thought, I started to tell the others what an
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: experience I was having. The cat was almost out of
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: the bag when I grabbed it by its tail and
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: pulled it back. It's awfully hard for me not to
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: tell everything I know. I'm a very confiding soul by nature.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: If I didn't have you to tell things too, I'd burst.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: We had a molasses candy pull last Friday evening, given
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: by the house matron of Ferguson to the left behinds
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: in the other halls. There were twenty two of us altogether,
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: freshmen and sophomores, and juniors and seniors, all united in
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: amicable accord. The kitchen is huge, with copper pots and
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: kettles hanging in rows on the stone wall. The littlest
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: castrole among them about the size of a wash boiler.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Four hundred girls live in Ferguson. The chef in a
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: white cap and apron fetched out twenty two other white
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: caps and aprons. I can't imagine where he got so many,
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: and we all turned ourselves into cooks. It was great fun,
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: though I have seen better candy. When it was finally finished,
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: and ourselves in the kitchen and the door knobs all
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: thoroughly sticky, we organized a procession and still in our
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: caps and aprons, each carrying a big fork or spoon
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: or frying pan. We marched through the empty corridors to
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: the officer's parlor, where half a dozen professors and instructors
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: were passing a trinquill evening. We serenaded them with college
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: songs and offered refreshments. They accepted politely but dubiously. We
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: left them sucking chunks of molasses candy, sticky and speechless.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: So you see, Daddy, my education progresses. Don't you really
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: think that I ought to be an artist instead of
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: an author. Vacation will be over in two days, and
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: I shall be glad to see the girls again. My
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: tower is just a trifle lonely. When nine people occupy
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: a house that was built for four hundred, they do
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: rattle around a bit eleven pages. Poor daddy, you must
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: be tired. I meant this to be a short little
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: thing note, but when I get started, I seem to
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: have a ready pen. Goodbye, and thank you for thinking
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: of me. I should be perfectly happy, except for one
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: little threatening cloud on the horizon. Examinations come in February.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Yours with love, Judy. PS. Maybe it isn't proper to
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: send love if it isn't please excuse, but I must
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: love somebody, and there is only you and missus Lippett
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: to choose between. So you see, you'll have to put
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: up with it, dear Daddy, because I can't love her
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: on the eve, Dear Daddy long legs. You should see
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: the way this college is studying. We've forgotten we ever
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: had a vacation. Fifty seven irregular verbs have I introduced
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: to my brain in the past four days. I'm only
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: hoping they'll stay till after examinations. Some of the girls
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: sell their textbooks when they're through with them, but I
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: intend to keep mine. Then, after I've graduated, I shall
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: have my whole education in a row in the book case,
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: and when I need to use any detail, I can
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: turn to it without the slightest hesitation. So much easier
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: and more accurate than trying to keep it in your head.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Julia Pendleton dropped in this evening to pay a social
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: call and stayed a solid hour. She got started on
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: the subject of family, and I couldn't switch her off.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: She wanted to know what my mother's maiden name was.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Did you ever hear such an impertinent question to ask
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: of a person from a foundling asylum. I didn't have
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: the courage to say I didn't know, so I just
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: miserably plumped on the first name I could think of,
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: and that was Montgomery. Then she wanted to know whether
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: I belonged to the Massachusetts Montgomery's or the Virginia Montgomery's.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: the Ark and were connected by marriage with Henry the
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: eighth On her father's side. They date back further than Adam.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: On the topmost branches of her family tree, there's a
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: superior breed of monkeys with very fine, silky hair and
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: extra long tails. I meant to write you a nice, cheerful,
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: entertaining letter tonight, but I'm too sleepy and scared. The
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: freshman's lot is not a happy one. Yours about to
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: be examined. Judy Abbot Sunday, Dearest Daddy long Legs, I
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: have some awful, awful, awful news to tell you, but
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: I won't begin with it. I'll try to get you
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: in a good humor first. Jerusha Abbot has commenced to
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: be an author. A poem entitled from My Tower appears
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: in the February Monthly on the first page, which is
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: a very great honor for a freshman. My English instructor
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: stopped me on the way out from chapel last night
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: and said it was a charming piece of work, except
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: for the sixth line, which had too many feet. I
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: will send you a copy in case you care to
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: read it. Let me see if I can think of
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: something else pleasant.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm learning to skate and can glide about quite respectably,
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: all by myself. Also, I've learned how to slide down
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: a rope from the roof of the gymnasium, and I
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: can vault a bar three feet and six inches high.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: I hope shortly to pull up to four feet. We
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: had a very inspiring sermon this morning, preached by the
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: Bishop of Alabama. His text was judge, not that ye
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: be not judged. It was about the necessity of overlooking
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: mistakes in others and not discouraging people by harsh judgments.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: I wish you might have heard it. This is the sunniest,
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: most blinding winter afternoon, with icicles dripping from the fir trees,
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: and all the world bending under a weight of snow
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: except me. I'm bending under a weight of sorrow now.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: For the news courage, Judy, you must tell, are you
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: surely in a good humor? I failed in mathematics and
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: Latin prose. I am tutoring in them and will take
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: another examination next month. I'm sorry if you're disappointed, but
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: otherwise I don't care a bit because I've learned such
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: a lot of things not mentioned in the catalog. I've
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: read seventeen novels and bushels of poetry, really necessary novels
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: like Vanity Fair and Richard Feverel and Alice in Wonderland.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: Also Emerson's essays and Lockhart's Life of Scott, and the
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: first volume of Gibson's Roman Empire, and half of then
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: the nudo Sellini's life. Wasn't he entertaining? He used to
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: saunter out and casually kill a man before breakfast. So
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: you see, Daddy, I'm much more intelligent than if i'd
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: just stuck to Latin. Will you forgive me this once
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: if I promise never to fail again? Yours in sackcloth, Judy,
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: Dear Daddy long legs. This is an extra letter in
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: the middle of the month because I'm rather lonely tonight.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: It's awfully stormy all the lights are out on the campus,
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: but I drank black coffee and I can't go to sleep.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: I had a supper party this evening, consisting of Sally
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: and Julia and Leonora Fenton and sardines and toasted muffins
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: and salad and fudge and coffee. Julia said she had
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: a good time, but Sally stayed to help wash the dishes.
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: I might very usefully put some time on Latin tonight,
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: but there's no doubt about it. I'm a very languid
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: Latin scholar. We've finished Livy and Desenectute and now engaged
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: with Damikitia pronounced damn Akitia. Should you mind just for
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: a little while pretending you are my grandmother. Sally has one,
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: and Julia and Leonora each two, and they were all
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: comparing them tonight. I can't think of anything I'd rather have.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: It's such a respectable relationship, so if you really don't object.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: When I went into town yesterday I saw the sweetest
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: cap of clooney lace trimmed with lavender ribbon. I am
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: going to make you a present of it on your
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: eighty third birthday. That's the clock in the chapel tower,
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: striking twelve I believe I I'm sleepy after all. Good night, Granny.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: I love you, dearly Judy. The IDEs of March. Dear DLLL.
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: I am studying Latin prose composition. I have been studying it.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: I shall be studying it. I shall be about to
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: have been studying it. My re examination comes the seventh
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: hour next Tuesday, and I'm going to pass or bust.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: So you may expect to hear from me next whole
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: and happy and free from conditions or in fragments. I
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: will write a respectable letter when it's over. Tonight I
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: have a pressing engagement with the Oblate of absolute yours
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: in evident haste JA twenty sixth March, Mister d LLL Smith, Sir,
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: you never answer my questions. You never show the slightest
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: interest in anything I do. You are probably the horridest
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: one of all those horrid trustees. And the reason you
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: are educating me is not because you care a bit
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: about me, but for a sense of duty. I don't
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: know a single thing about you. I don't even know
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: your name. It is very uninspiring writing to a thing.
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: I haven't a doubt but that you throw my letters
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: into the waste basket without reading them. Hereafter I shall
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: write only about work. My re examinations in Latin and
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: geometry came last week. I passed them both, and now
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: free from conditions. Yours truly, Jerusha Abbott, second April. Dear
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: Daddy long Legs, I am a beast. Please forget about
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: that dreadful letter I sent you last week. I was
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: feeling terribly lonely and miserable and sore throaty the night
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: I wrote. I didn't know it, but I was just
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: sickening for tonsilitis and gripe and lots of things mixed.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: I'm in the infirmary now and have been here for
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: six days. This is the first time they would let
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: me sit up and have a pen and paper. The
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: head nurse is very bossy, but I've been thinking about
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: it all the time, and I shan't get well until
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: you forgive me. Here is a picture of the way
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: I look with a bandage tied around my head in
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: rabbit's ears. Doesn't that arouse your sympathy. I am having
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: sublingual gland swelling, and I've been studying physiology all the
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: year without ever hearing of sublingual glands. How futile. A
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: thing is education. I can't write any more. I get
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: rather shaky when I sit up too long. Please forgive
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: me for being impertinent and ungrateful. I was badly brought
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: up Yours with love, Judy Abbot, the Infirmary, fourth April,
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: Dearest Daddy long legs. Yesterday evening, just towards dark, when
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: I was sitting up in bed, looking out at the
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: rain and feeling awfully bored with life in a great institution,
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: the nurse appeared with a long white box addressed to
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: me and filled with a low heelless pink rosebuds, and
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: much nicer still, it contained a card with a very
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: polite message written in a funny little uphill backhand, but
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: one which shows a great deal of character. Thank you,
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: Daddy a thousand times. Your flowers make the first real,
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: true present I ever received in my life. If you
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: want to know what a baby I am, I lay
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: down and cried because I was so happy. Now that
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: I am sure you read my letters, I'll make them
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: much more interesting, so they'll be worth keeping in a
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: safe with red tape round them. Only please take out
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: that dreadful one and burn it. I'd hate to think
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: that you ever read it over. Thank you for making
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: a very sick, cross miserable freshman cheerful. Probably you have
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: lots of loving family and friends, and you don't know
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: what it feels like to be alone, but I do. Goodbye.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: I'll promise never to be horrid again, because now I
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: know you're a real person. Also, I'll promise never to
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: bother you with any more questions? Do you still hate girls?
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Yours forever? Judy, eighth hour, Monday. Dear Daddy long Legs.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: I hope you aren't the trustee who sat on the
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: toad it went off, I was told with quite a pop,
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: so probably he was a fatter trustee. Do you remember
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: the little dugout places with gratings over them by the
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: laundry windows in the John Greer Home. Every spring when
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: the hop toad season opened, we used to form a
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: collection of toads and keep them in those window holes,
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: and occasionally they would spill over into the laundry, causing
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: a very pleasurable commotion on wash day. We were severely
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: punished in our activities in this direction, but in spite
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: of all the discouragement, the toads would collect, and one
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: day well I won't bore you with particulars, but somehow
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: one of the fattest, biggest, juiciest toads got into one
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: of those big leather armchairs in the trustees room, and
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: that afternoon the trust meeting. But I dare say you
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: were there and recall the rest, looking back dispassionately after
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: a period of time, I will say that punishment was merited,
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: and if I remember rightly adequate. I don't know why
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: I'm in such a reminiscent mood, except that spring and
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: the reappearance of toads always awakens the old acquisitive instinct.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: The only thing that keeps me from starting a collection
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: is the fact that no rule exists against it. After
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: Chapel Thursday, What do you think is my favorite book?
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: Just now? I mean, I change every three days. Wuthering
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: Heights Emily Bronte was quite young when she wrote it
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: and had never been outside of Hailworth Churchyard. She had
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: never known any men in her life. How could she
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: imagine a man like Heathcliff. I couldn't do it, and
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: I'm quite young and never outside the John Grier Asylum.
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: I've had every chance in the world. Sometimes a dreadful
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: fear comes over me that I'm not a genius. Will
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: you be awfully disappointed, Daddy, if I don't turn out
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: to be a great author. In the spring, when everything
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: is so beautiful and green and butting, I feel like
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: turning my back on lessons and running away to play
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: with the weather. There are such a lot of adventures
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: out in the fields. It's much more entertaining to live
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: books than to write them. Ow that was a shriek
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: which brought Sally and Julia, and for a disgusted moment
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: the Senior from across the hall. It was caused by
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: a centipede like this, only worse. Just as I had
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: finished the last sentence and was thinking what to say next,
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: plump it fell off the ceiling and landed at my side.
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: I tipped two cups off the tea table in trying
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: to get away. Sally whacked it with the back of
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: my hair brush, which I shall never be able to
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: use again, and killed the front end. But the rear
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: fifty feet ran under the bureau and escaped. This dormitory,
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: owing to its age and ivy covered wall, is full
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: of centipedes. They are dreadful creatures. I'd rather find a
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: tiger under the bed. Friday, nine thirty p m. Such
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: a lot of troubles. I didn't hear the rising bell
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: this morning. Then I broke my shoe string while I
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: was hurrying to dress, and dropped my collar button down
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: my neck. I was late for breakfast and also for
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: first hour recitation. I forgot to take any blotting paper,
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: and my fountain pen leaked. In trigonometry, the professor and
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: I had a disagreement touching a little matter of logarithms.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: On looking it up, I found that she was right.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: We had mutton stew and pie plant for lunch. Hate
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: them both. They taste like the asylum. The post brought
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: me nothing but bills, though I must say that I
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: never do get anything else. My family are not the
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: kind that rite. In English class this afternoon we had
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: an unexpected written lesson.
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: This was it?
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: I asked, no other thing, No other was den I offered,
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: being for it. The mighty merchant smiled Brazil. He twirled
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: a button without a glance my way. But Madam, is
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: there nothing else that we can show you today? That
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: is a poem. I don't know who wrote it or
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: what it means. It was simply printed out on the
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: blackboard when we arrived, and we were ordered to comment
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: upon it. When I read the first verse, I thought
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: I had an idea. The mighty Merchant was a divinity
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: who distributes blessings in return for virtuous deeds. But when
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: I got to the second verse and found him twirling
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: a button, it seemed a blasphemous supposition, and I hastily
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: changed my mind. The rest of the class was in
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: the same predicament, and there we sat for three quarters
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: of an hour with blank paper and equally blank minds.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: Getting an education is an awfully wearing process. But this
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: didn't end the day. There's worse to come. It rained,
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: so we couldn't play golf, but we had to go
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: to jimnae Usium instead. The girl next to me banged
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: my elbow with an Indian club. I got home to
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: find that the box with my new blue spring a
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: dress had come, and the skirt was so tight that
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: I couldn't sit down. Friday is sweeping day, and the
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: maid had mixed all the papers on my desk. We
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: had tombstone for dessert, milk and gelatin flavored with vanilla.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: We were kept in chapel twenty minutes later than usual
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: to listen to a speech about womanly women, And then,
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: just as I was settling down with a sigh of
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: well earned relief, to the portrait of a lady, a
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: girl named Ackerley, a dough faced, deadly, uninterminately stupid girl
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: who sits next to me in Latin because her name
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: begins with A. I wish Missus Lippett had named me
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: ZABRISKI came to ask if Monday's lesson commenced at paragraphs
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: sixty nine or seventy and stayed one hour. She has
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: just gone. Did you ever hear of such a discouraging
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: series of events? It isn't the big troubles in life
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: that require care. Anybody can rise to a crisis and
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: face a crushing tragedy with courage. But to meet the
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: petty hazards of the day with a laugh, I really
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: think that requires spirit. It's the kind of character that
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: I'm going to develop. I am going to pretend that
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: all life is just a game which I must play
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose,
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh. Also
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: if I win. Anyway, I am going to be a sport.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: You will never hear me complain again, Daddy, Dear, because
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: Julia wears silk stockings and centipedes drop off the wall.
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: Yours ever, Judy answer soon. Twenty seventh May, Daddy long
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Legs esquire, Dear, Sir, I am in receipt of a
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: letter from Missus Lippett. She hopes that I am doing
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: well in deportment and studies. Since I probably have no
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: place to go this summer, she will let me come
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: back to the asylum and work for my board until
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: college opens. I hate the John Grier home. I'd rather
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: die than go back, Yours most truthfully, Jerusha abbot Cher
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: Daddy Jean blancs lu Eton bric jesuits trehurus about the farm,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: parsca June jenben on a farm, don ma vie, and
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: I'd hate to retu mer che John Grier A wash
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: dishes to Lette. There would be danger of Calcaucho's affrouez happening.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: Parscaege perdue ma himilite to autre foi a je pour
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: that I would just break out calcajour a smash every
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: cup and saucer Don Lameison pardon breviete a paper ginnipo
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: pas send demey novelle perscuae suis d'n french class a
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: jet pour comisieur le prefaceur is going to call me
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: on toute de suite. He did beauvoir juvou and may Bookoo,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: Judy thirtieth May, Dear Daddy, long legs, did you ever
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: see this campus? This is merely a rhetorical question. Don't
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: let it annoy you. It is a heavenly spot in May.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: All the shrubs are in blossom, and the trees are
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: the loveliest, young green. Even the old pines look fresh
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: and new. The grass is dotted with yellow dandelions, and
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: hundreds of girls in blue and white and pink dresses.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: Everybody is joyous and carefree for vacations coming, and with
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: that to look forward to examinations don't count. Isn't that
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: a happy frame of mind to be in? And oh daddy,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: I am the happiest of all because I'm not in
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: the asylum anymore, and I'm not anybody's nursemaid or typewriter
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: or bookkeeper. I should have been, you know, except for you.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry now for all my past badnesses. I'm sorry
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: I was ever impertinent to missus Lippet. I'm sorry I
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: ever slapped Freddy Perkins. I'm sorry I ever filled the
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: sugar bowl with salt. I'm sorry I ever made faces
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: behind the trustees' backs. I'm going to be good and
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: sweet and kind to everybody because I'm so happy and
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: this summer I'm going to write and write and write
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: and begin to be a great author. Isn't that an
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: exalted stand to take? Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: Its droops a bit under cold and frost, but it
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness. I
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: have no faith in misanthropy's fine word, just learned it.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: You are not a misanthropy, are you, Daddy? I started
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: to tell you about the campus. I wish you'd come
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: for a little visit and let me walk you about
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: and say, that is the library, This is the gas
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: play aunt, Daddy, dear, The gothic building on your left
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: is the Gymnasium and the Tudor Romanesque beside. It is
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: the new infirmary. Oh, I'm fine at showing people about.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: I've done it all my life at the asylum, and
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: I've been doing it all day here. I have, honestly,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: and a man too. That's a great experience. I never
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: talked to a man before, except occasional trustees, and they
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: don't count. Pardon, daddy, I don't mean to hurt your
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: feelings when I abuse trustees. I don't consider that you
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: really belong among them. You just tumbled onto the board
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: by chance. The trustee as such is fat and pompous
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: and benevolent. He pats me on the head and wears
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: a gold watch chain that looks like a junebug, but
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 3: is meant to be a portrait of any trustee except you. However,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: to resume, I have been walking and talking and having
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: tea with a man, and with a very superior man,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: with mister Jervis Pendleton of the House of Jewlie, her
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: uncle in short in long perhaps I ought to say
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: he's as tall as you. Being in town on business,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: he decided to run out to the college and call
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: on his niece. He's her father's youngest brother, but she
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: doesn't know him very intimately. It seems he glanced at
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: her when she was a baby, decided he didn't like her,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: and has never noticed her since. Anyway, there he was
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: sitting in the reception room, very proper with his hat
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: and stick and gloves beside him, and Julia and Sally
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: with the seventh Hour recitations. They couldn't cut so Julia
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: dashed into my room and begged me to walk him
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: about the campus and then deliver him to her when
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: the seventh Hour was over. I said I would obligingly,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: but unenthusiastically, because I don't care much for Pendleton's But
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: he turned out to be a sweet lamb. He's a
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: real human being, not a Pendleton at all. We had
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: a beautiful time. I've longed for an uncle ever since.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: Do you mind pretending you're my uncle? I believe they're
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: superior to grandmother's. Mister Pendleton, remind me a little of you, Daddy,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: as you were twenty years ago. You see, I know
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: you intimately, even if we haven't ever met. He's tall
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: and thinnish, the dark face all over lines and the
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: funniest underneath a smile that never quite comes through, but
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: just wrinkles up at the corners of his mouth. And
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: he has a way of making you feel right off,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: as though you've known him a long time. He's very companionable.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: We walked all over the campus, from the quadrangle to
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: the athletic grounds. Then he said he felt weak and
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: must have some tea. He proposed that we go to
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: College Inn. It's just off the campus by the pine walk.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: I said we ought to go back for Julia and Sally,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: but he said he didn't like to have his nieces
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: drink too much tea. It made him nervous. So we
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: just ran away and had tea and muffins and marmalade
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: and ice cream and cake at a nice little table
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: out in the balcony. The inn was quite conveniently empty,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: this being the end of the month and allowance is low.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: We had the jolliest time, but he had to run
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: for his train the minute he got back, and he
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: barely saw Julia at all. She was furious with me
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: for taking him off. It seems he is an unusually
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: rich and desirable uncle. It relieved my mind to find
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: he was rich. For the tea in things cost sixty
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: cents apiece. This morning it's Monday now. Three boxes of
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: chocolates came by Express for Julia and Sally and me.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: What do you think of that? To be getting candy
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: from a man. I began to feel like a girl
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: instead of a foundling. I wish you'd come and have
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: tea someday and let me see if I like you.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: But wouldn't it be dreadful if I didn't. However, I
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: know I should Bienne. I make Hew my compliments jamat June,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: tout oubliere, Judy p s. I looked in the glass
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: this morning and found a perfectly new dimple that I'd
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: never seen before. It's very curious. Where do you suppose
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: it came from? Ninth June? Daddy, long legs, Happy day.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: I've just finished my last examination of physiology, and now
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: three months on a farm. I don't know what kind
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: of a thing a farm is. I've never been on
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: one in my life. I've never even looked at one
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: except from the car window. But I know I'm going
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: to love it, and I'm going to love being free.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: I am not used even yet to being outside the
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: John Greerholme. Whenever I think of it, excited little thrills
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: chase up and down my back. I feel as though
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: I must run faster and faster, and keep looking over
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: my shoulder to make sure that Missus Lippet isn't after
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: me with her arms stretched out to grab me back.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: I don't have to mind anyone this summer, do I.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: Your nominal authority doesn't annoy me in the least. You
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: are too far away to do any harm. Missus Lippett
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: is dead forever so far as I am concerned. And
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: the Semples aren't expected to overlook my moral welfare, are they? No,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: I'm sure not. I am entirely grown. Hooray. I leave
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: you now to pack a trunk and three boxes of
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: tea kettles and dishes and sofa cushions and books. Yours ever, Judy, Yes,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: here's my physiology exam. Do you think you could have passed?
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  Speaker 3: End of Part three, Part four, Lock Willow Farm, Saturday night,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: Dearest Daddy long Legs. I've only just come and I'm
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: not unpacked, but I can't wait to tell you how
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: much I like farms. This is a heavenly, heavenly, heavenly spot.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: The house is square like this, and old one hundred
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: years or so. It has a veranda on the side
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: which I can't draw, and a sweet porch in front.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: The picture really doesn't do it justice. Those things that
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: look like feather dusters are maple trees, and the prickly
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: ones that border the drive are murmuring pines and hemlocks.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: It stands on the top of a hill and looks
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: way off over miles of green meadows to another line
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: of hills. That is the way Connecticut goes in a
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: series of Marcel waves, and lock Willow Farm is just
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: on the crest of one wave. The barns used to
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: be across the road where they obstructed the view, but
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: a kind flash of lightning came from heaven and burnt
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: them down. The people are mister and Missus Semple, and
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: a hired girl and two hired men. The hired people
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: eat in the kitchen, and the Semples and Judy in
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: the dining room. We had ham and eggs and biscuits
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: and honey and jelly cake, and pie and pickles and
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: cheese and tea for supper, and a great deal of conversation.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: I have never been so entertaining in my life. Everything
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: I say appears to be funny. I suppose it is
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: because I've never been in the country before, and my
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: questions are backed by an all inclusive ignorance. The room,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: remarked with a cross, is not where the murder was committed,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: but the one that I occupy. It's big and square
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: and empty, with adorable old fashioned furniture in windows that
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: have to be propped up on sticks and green shades
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: trimmed with gold that fall down if you touch them,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: and a big, square mahogany table. I'm going to spend
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: the summer with my elbows spread out on it writing
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: a novel. Oh Daddy, I'm so excited. I can't wait
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: till daylight to explore. It's eight thirty now and I'm
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: about to blow out my candle and try.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 4: To go to sleep.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: We rise at five. Did you ever know such fun
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: I can't believe this is really Judy. You and the
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: Good Lord give me more than I deserve. I must
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: be a very, very very good person to pay. I'm
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: going to be. You will see good night, Judy. P s.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: You should hear the frogs sing in the little Pig's squeal,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: and you should see the new moon. I saw it
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: over my right shoulder, lock Willow, twelfth July. Dear Daddy
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: long Legs, how did your secretary come to know about
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: lock Willow? That isn't a rhetorical question. I am awfully
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: curious to know. For listen to this. Mister Jervis Pendleton
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: used to own this farm, but now he has given
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: it to missus Semple, who was his old nurse. Did
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: you ever hear of such a funny coincidence? She still
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: calls him Master Jervie and talks about what a sweet
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: little boy he used to be. She has one of
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: his baby curls put away in a box and it
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: is red, or at least reddish. Since she discovered that
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: I know him, I have risen very much. In her opinion,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 3: Knowing a member of the Pendleton family is the best
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: introduction one can have at luck Willow. And the cream
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: of the whole family is Master Jervis. I am pleased
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: to say that Julia belongs to an inferior branch. The
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: farm gets more and more entertaining. I rode on a
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: hay wagon yesterday. We have three big pigs and nine
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: little piglets, and you should see them eat. They are pigs.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: We've oceans of little baby chickens and ducks and turkeys
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: and guinea fowls. You must be mad to live in
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: a city when you might live on a farm. It
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 3: is my daily business to hunt the eggs. I fell
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: off a beam in the barn loth yesterday while I
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: was trying to crawl over to a nest that the
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: black hen had stolen. And when I came in with
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: a scratched knee, Missus Semple bounded up with witch Hazel,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: murmuring all the time. Dear, dear, it seems only yesterday
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: that Master Jerviy fell off that very same beam and
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: scratched his very same knee. The scenery around here is
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: perfectly beautiful. There's a valley and a river, and a
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 3: lot of wooded hills, and way in the distance a
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: tall blue mountain that simply melts in your mouth. We
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: churn twice a week, and we keep the cream in
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 3: the spring house, which is made of stone with a
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: brook running underneath. Some of the farmers around here have
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: a separator, but we don't care for these new fashioned ideas.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: It may be a little harder to separate the cream
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: in pans, but it's sufficiently better to pay. We have
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: six calves, and I've chosen the names for all of them.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: Sylvia because she was born in the woods. Lesbia after
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: the Lesbia in Kettalus. Sally Julia, a spotted, nondescript animal.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: Judy after me, Daddy long Legs. You don't mind, do you, Daddy?
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: He's pure Jersey and has a sweet disposition. He looks
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: like this. You can see how appropriate the name is.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: I haven't had time yet to begin my immortal novel.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: The farm keeps me too busy. Yours always, Judy. Ps.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: I've learned to make doughnuts. Ps. Two. If you are
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: thinking of raising chickens, let me recommend buff Orpington's. They
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: haven't any pin feathers. PS Three. I wish I could
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: send you a pat of the nice fresh butter I
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: churned yesterday. I am a fine dairy maid. Ps. Four.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: This is a picture of Miss Jerusha Abbot, the future
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: great Author, driving home the cows Sunday. Dear Daddy long Legs.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: Isn't it funny? I started to write to you yesterday afternoon,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: but as far as I got was the heading Dear
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: Daddy long Legs. And then I remembered I'd promised to
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: pick some blackberries for supper. So I went off and
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: left the sheet lying on the table. When I came
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: back today, what do you think I found sitting in
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: the middle of the page, A real true daddy long legs.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: I picked him up very gently by one leg and
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: dropped him out of the window. I wouldn't hurt one
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: of them for the world. They always remind me of you.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: We hitched up the spring wagon this morning and drove
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 3: to the center to church. It's a sweet little white
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: framed church with a spire and three doric columns in front,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: or maybe ionic I always get them mixed a nice
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: sleepy sermon, with everybody drowsily waving palm leaf fans, and
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 3: the only sound aside from the minister the buzzing of
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: locusts in the trees outside. I didn't wake up till
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: I found myself on my feet singing the hymn, and
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: then I was awfully sorry I hadn't listened to the sermon.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: I should like to know more of the psychology of
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: a man who could pick out such a hymn.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 5: This was it.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 3: Come leave your sports and earthly toys and join me
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 3: in celestial joys or else, Dear friend, a long farewell.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: I leave you now to sink to Hell. I find
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: that it isn't safe to discuss religion with Semples. Their God,
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: whom they have inherited intact from their remote Puritan ancestors,
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: is a narrow, irrational, unjust, mean, revengeful, bigoted person. Thank Heaven,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: I don't inherit God from anybody. I am free to
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: make mine up as I wish him. He's kind and
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding, and he has
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: a sense of humor. I like the Simples immensely. Their
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: practice is so superior to their theory. They are better
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: than their own God. I told them so, and they
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: are horribly troubled. They think I am blasphemous, and I
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: think they are. We've dropped theology from our conversation. This
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: is Sunday afternoon. Amasi hired man in a purple tie
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: and some bright yellow buckskin gloves, very red and shaved,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: has just driven off with Carrie, hired girl in a
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: big hat trimmed with red roses and a blue muslin dress,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 3: and her hair curled as tight as it will curl.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: Amassi spent all the morning washing the buggy and Carrie
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 3: stayed home from church, ostensibly to cook the dinner, but
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: really to iron the muslin dress. In two minutes more,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: when this letter is finished, I am going to settle
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: down to a book which I found in the attic.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 3: It's entitled on the Trail, and sprawled across the front
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: page in a funny little boy hand, Jervis Pendleton. If
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 3: this book should ever roam box its ears and send
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: it home. He spent the summer here once after he
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: had been ill, when he was about eleven years old,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: and he left on the trail behind it looks well read.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: The marks of his grimy little hands are frequent. Also
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: in a corner of the attic there is a water
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: wheel and a windmill, and some bows and arrows. Missus
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 3: Semple talks so constantly about him that I begin to
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: believe he really lives. Not a grown man with a
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: silk hat and walking stick, but a nice, dirty tussel
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 3: headed boy who clatters up the stairs with an awful
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: racket and leaves the screen doors open, and is always
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 3: asking for cookies and getting them too. If I know
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: Missus Semple, he seems to have been an adventurous little soul,
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  Speaker 3: and brave and truthful. I'm sorry to think he is
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: a Pendleton. He was meant for something better. We're going
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: to begin threshing oats tomorrow. A steam engine is coming
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: and three extra men. It grieves me to tell you
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: that Buttercup, the spotted cow with one horn, mother of Lesbia,
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: has done a disgraceful thing. She got into the orchard
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: Friday evening in ate apples under the trees, and ate
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: and ate until they went to her head. Two days
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: she has been perfectly dead drunk. That is the truth
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: I am telling. Did you ever hear anything so scandalous? Sir?
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: I remain your affectionate orphan. Judy Abbot ps Indians in
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 3: the first chapter, and highwaymen in the second. I hold
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: my breath? What can the third contain? Red hawk leapt
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: twenty feet in the air and bit the dust. That
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: is the subject of the frontispiece. Aren't Judy and Jerviy
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: having fun? Fifteenth September, Dear Daddy, I was weighed yesterday
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: on the flower scales in the general store at the Comer's.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 3: I've gained nine pounds. Let me recommend lock Willow as
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: a health resort. Yours ever, Judy. End of Part four.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 4: Part five. Dear Daddy, long legs, hold me Sophomore. I
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 4: came up last Friday, sorry to leave Lock Willow, but
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 4: glad to see the campus again. It is a pleasant
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 4: sensation to come back to something familiar. I'm beginning to
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 4: feel at home in college and in command of the situation.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 4: I am beginning, in fact, to feel at home in
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 4: the world, as though I really belonged to it and
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 4: had not just crept in on sufferance. I don't suppose
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 4: you understand in the least what I'm trying to say.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 4: A person important enough to be a trustee can't appreciate
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 4: the feelings of a person unimportant enough to be a foundling.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 4: And now, Daddy, listen to this. Whom do you think?
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 4: I am rooming with Sallie McBride and Julia Rutlich Pendleton.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 4: It's the truth. We have a study in three little bedrooms. Vallah,
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 4: Sally and I decided last spring that we should like
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 4: to room together, and Julia made up her mind to
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 4: stay with Sally. Why I can't imagine, for they are
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 4: not a bit alike. But the Pendletons are naturally conservative
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 4: and inimical. Fine word to change away. Here we are
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 4: think of Jerusha Abbott, late of the John Greer Home
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 4: for Orphans, rooming with a pendleton. This is a democratic country.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 4: Sally is running for Class president, and unless all science fail,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: she is going to be elected. Such an atmosphere of intrigue,
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 4: you should see what politicians we are. Oh, I tell you, daddy,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 4: When we women get our rights, you men will have
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 4: to look alive in order to keep yours. Election comes
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 4: next Saturday, and we're going to have a torchlight procession
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 4: in the evening, no matter who wins. I'm beginning chemistry,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 4: a most unusual study. I've never seen anything like it before.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 4: Molecules and atoms are the material employed, but I'll be
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 4: in a position to discuss them more definitely next month.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 4: I'm also taking argumentation and logic. Also History of the
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 4: Whole World also plays with William Shakespeare. Also French. If
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 4: this keeps up many years longer, I shall become quite intelligent.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 4: I should rather have elected Economics than French, but I
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 4: didn't dare because I was afraid that unless I re
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 4: elected French, the professor would not let me pass. As
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 4: it was, I just managed to squeeze through the June examination.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 4: But I will say that my high school preparation was
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 4: not very adequate. There's one girl in the class who
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 4: chatters away in French as fast as she does in English.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 4: She went abroad with her parents when she was a
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 4: child and spent three years in a convent school. You
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: can imagine how bright she is compared with the rest
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 4: of us. Irregular verbs are mere playthings. I wish my
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 4: parents had chucked me into a French convent when I
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 4: was little instead of a founding asylum. Oh no, I
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 4: don't either, because then maybe I should never have known you.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 4: I'd rather know you than French. Goodbye, Daddy, I must
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 4: call on Harriet Martin now, and, having discussed the chemical situation,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 4: casually drop a few thoughts on the subject of our
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 4: next president. Yours in politics, Jay Abbott, seventeenth October. Dear Daddy,
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 4: long legs. Supposing the swimming tank in the gymnasium were
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 4: filled full of lemon jelly, could a person trying to
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 4: swim manage to keep on top? Would he sink we
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 4: were having lemon jelly for dessert. When the question came up,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 4: we discussed it heatedly for half an hour and it's
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 4: still unsettled. Sally thinks that she could swim in it,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 4: but I'm perfectly sure that the best swimmer in the
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 4: world would sink. Wouldn't it be funny to be drowned
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 4: in lemon jelly? Two other problems are engaging the attention
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 4: of our table. First, what shape are the rooms in
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 4: an octagon house? Some of the girls insist that they're square,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 4: but I think they'd have to be shaped like a
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 4: piece of pie, don't you. Second, suppose there were a great,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 4: big hollow sphere made of looking glass and you were
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 4: sitting inside. Where would it stop reflecting your face and
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 4: begin reflecting your back. The more one thinks about this problem,
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 4: the more puzzling it becomes. You can see with what
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 4: deep philosophical reflection we engage our leisure. Did I ever
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 4: tell you about the election? It happened three weeks ago?
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 4: But so fast do we live? That three weeks is
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 4: ancient history. Sally was elected, and we had a torchlight
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 4: parade with transparency saying McBride forever, and a band consisting
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 4: of fourteen pieces, three mouth organs, and eleven combs. We
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 4: are very important persons now. In two fifty eight, Julia
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 4: and I come in for a great deal of reflected glory.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 4: It's quite a social strain to be living in the
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 4: same house with the President when UI shared Daddy except
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 4: des Mes compliment Tree respectors, Justi Vautrue Judy, twelfth November,
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 4: Dear Daddy, long legs. We beat the freshman at basketball yesterday.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 4: Of course we're pleased. But oh, if we could only
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 4: beat the juniors, I'd be willing to be black and
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 4: blue all over and stay in bed a week in
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 4: a witch hazel compress. Sally has invited me to spend
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: the Christmas vacation with her. She lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 4: Wasn't it nice of her? I shall love to go.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 4: I've never been in a private family in my life
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 4: except at Lock Willow, and the Semples were grown up
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 4: and old and don't count. But the mcbrides have a
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 4: house full of children anyway two or three, and a
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 4: mother and father, grandmother and an angora cat. It's a
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 4: perfectly complete family. Packing your trunk and going away is
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 4: more fun than staying behind. I'm terribly excited at the prospect.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 4: Seventh hour, I must run to rehearsal. I'm to be
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 4: in the Thanksgiving theatricals A prince in a tower with
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: a velvet tunic and yellow curls. Isn't that a lark yours?
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 4: J a Saturday? Do you want to know what I
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 4: look like? Here's a photograph of all three that Leonora
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 4: Fenton took. The light one who is laughing is Sally,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 4: and the tall one with her nose in the air
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 4: as Julia, and the little one with the hair blowing
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 4: across her face is Judy. She is really more beautiful
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 4: than that, but the sun was in her eyes. Stone Gate, Worcester,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 4: Mass thirty one December. Dear Daddy long Legs, I meant
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 4: to write to you before and thank you for your
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 4: Christmas check. But life in them a bride household is
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 4: very absorbing and I don't seem able to find two
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: consecutive minutes to spend at a desk. I bought a
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 4: new gown, one that I didn't need but just wanted
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 4: was present this year is from Daddy long Legs. My
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 4: family just sent love. I've been having the most beautiful
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 4: vacation visiting Sally. She lives in a big, old fashioned
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 4: brick house with white trimmings set back from the Street,
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: exactly the kind of house that I used to look
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 4: at so curiously when I was in the John Grier
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 4: Home and wonder what it could be like inside. I
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 4: never expected to see with my own eyes. But here
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 4: I am. Everything is so comfortable and RESTful and homelike.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 4: I walk from room to room and drink in the furnishings.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 4: It is the most perfect house for children to be
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 4: brought up in, with shadowy nooks for hide and seek,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: and open fireplaces for popcorn, and an attic to rump
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 4: in on rainy days, and slippery banisters with a comfortable
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 4: fat knob on the bottom, and a great, big sunny
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 4: kitchen and a nice, fat sunny cook who has lived
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 4: in the family thirteen years and always saves out a
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 4: piece of dough for the children to bake. Just the
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 4: sight of such a house makes you want to be
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 4: a child all over again. And as for families, I
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 4: never dreamed that he could be so nice. Sally has
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: a father and mother and grandmother and the sweetest three
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 4: year old baby sister all over curls, and a medium
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 4: sized brother who always forgets to wipe his feet, and
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 4: a big, good looking brother named Jimmy who is a
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 4: junior at Princeton. We have the jolliest times at the table.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 4: Everybody laughs and jokes and talks at once, and we
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 4: don't have to say grace beforehand. It's a relief not
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 4: having to thank somebody for every mouthful you eat. I
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 4: dare sam blasphemous, but you'd be too if you'd offered
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: as much obligatory thanks as I have. Such a lot
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 4: of things we've done, I can't begin to tell you
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 4: about them. Mister McBride owns a factory, and Christmas Eve
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 4: he had a tree for the employee's children. It was
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 4: in the long packing room, which was decorated with evergreens
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 4: and holly. Jimmy McBride was dressed as Santa Claus and
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 4: Sally and I helped him distribute the presence. Dear me, Daddy,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 4: but it was a funny sensation. I felt as benevolent
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 4: as a trustee of the John Greer Home. I kissed
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 4: one sweet, sticky little boy, but I don't think I've
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 4: patted any of them on the life head. And two
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 4: days after Christmas, they gave a dance at their own
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 4: house for me. It was the first really true ball
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 4: I ever attended college. Doesn't count where we dance with girls.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 4: I had a new white evening gown your Christmas present,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 4: many thanks, and long white gloves and white satin slippers.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 4: The only drawback to my perfect, utter, absolute happiness was
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 4: the fact that missus Lippett couldn't see me leading the
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 4: cotillion with Jimmy McBride. Tell her about it, please the
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 4: next time you visit the j g H yours ever,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 4: Judy Abbott ps. Would you be terribly displeased, Daddy if
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 4: I didn't turn out to be a great author after all,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 4: but just a plain girl? Six point thirty Saturday, Dear Daddy,
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 4: We started to walk to town today, but mercy how
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 4: it poured. I like winter to be winter with snow
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 4: instead of rain. Julia's desirable uncle called again this afternoon
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 4: and brought a five pound box of chuck klitz. There
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 4: are advantages, you see about rooming with Julia. Our innocent
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 4: prattle appeared to amuse him, and he waited for a
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 4: later train in order to take Tea in the study.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 4: We had an awful lot of trouble getting permission. It's
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 4: hard enough entertaining fathers and grandfathers, but uncles are a
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 4: step worse, and as for brothers and cousins, they are
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 4: next to him. Possible Julia had to swear that he
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 4: was her uncle before a notary public and then have
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 4: the county clerk's certificate attached. Don't I know a lot
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 4: of law? And even then I doubt if we could
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 4: have had our tea if the Dean had chance to
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 4: see how youngish and good looking Uncle Jervis is. Anyway,
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 4: we had it with brown bread Swiss cheese sandwiches. He
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 4: helped make them, and then ate four. I told him
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 4: that I had spent last summer at Lock Willow, and
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 4: we had a beautiful gossipy time about the semples and
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 4: the horses and cows and chickens. All the horses that
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 4: he used to know are dead, except Grover, who was
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 4: a baby colt at the time of his last visit.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 4: And poor Grove now is so old he can just
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 4: limp about the pasture. He asked if they still kept
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 4: doughnuts in a yellow CROs with a blue plate over
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 4: it on the bottom shelf of the pantry, and they do.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 4: He wanted to know if there was still a woodchuck's
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 4: hole under the pile of rocks in the night pasture,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 4: and there is Amasi caught a big fat gray one
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 4: there this summer, the twenty fifth great grandson of the
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 4: one Master Jervis caught when he was a little boy.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 4: I called him Master Jervy to his face, but he
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 4: didn't appear to be insulted. Julia says she has never
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 4: seen him so amiable. He's usually pretty unapproachable, but Julia
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 4: hasn't a bit of tact. And men I find require
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 4: a great deal. They purr if you rub them the
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 4: right way, and spit if you don't. That isn't a
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 4: very elegant metaphor. I mean it figuratively. We are reading
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 4: Marie Beshkertzeff's journal, isn't it amazing? Listen to this? Last
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 4: night I was seized by a fit of despair that
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 4: found utterance in moans, and that finally drove me to
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 4: throw the dining room clock into the sea. It makes
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 4: me almost hope I'm not a genius. They must be
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 4: very wearing to have about an awfully destructive to the
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 4: furniture mercy. How it keeps pouring, we shall have to
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 4: swim to Chapel tonight, yours ever, Judy twentieth January. Dear
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 4: Daddy long Legs, did you ever have a sweet baby
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 4: girl who was stolen from the cradle in infancy? Maybe
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 4: I am she? If we were in a novel, that
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 4: would be the de Numa, wouldn't it. It's really awfully
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 4: queer not to know what one is sort of exciting
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 4: and romantic. There are such a lot of possibilities. Maybe
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 4: I'm not American, lots of people aren't. I may be straight,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 4: descended from the ancient Romans. Or I may be a
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 4: Viking's daughter. Or I may be the child of a
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 4: Russian exile and belong by rights in a Siberian prison.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 4: Or maybe I'm a gypsy. I think perhaps I am.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 4: I have a very wandering spirit, though I haven't as
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 4: yet had much chance to develop it. Do you know
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 4: about that one scandalous blot in my career, the time
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 4: I ran away from the asylum because they punished me
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 4: for stealing cookies. It's down in the books, free for
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 4: any trustee to read. But what could you expect when
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 4: you put a hungry little nine year old girl in
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 4: a pantry scouring knives with the cookie jar at her elbow,
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 4: and go off and leave her alone and then suddenly
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 4: pop in again. Wouldn't you expect to find her a
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 4: bit crummy? And then when you jerk her by the
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 4: elbow and box her ears and make her leave the
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 4: table when the pudding comes and tell all the other
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 4: children that it's because she's a thief, wouldn't you expect
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 4: her to run away? I only ran four miles. They
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 4: caught me and brought me back, And every day for
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 4: a week I was tied like a naughty puppy to
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 4: a stake in the backyard while the other children were
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 4: out at recess. Oh dear, there's the chapel bell, and
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 4: after chapel I have a committee meeting. I'm sorry because
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 4: I meant to write you a very entertaining letter. This time,
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 4: I'll Fita Shane, share Daddy packs Tibby Judy p S.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 4: There's one thing I'm perfectly sure of. I'm not a chinaman.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 4: Fourth February, Dear, Daddy long Legs, Jimmy McBride has sent
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 4: me a Princeton banner as big as one end of
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 4: the room. I'm very grateful to him for remembering me,
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 4: but I don't know what on earth to do with it.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 4: Sally and Julia won't let me hang it up. Our
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 4: room this year is furnished in red, and you can
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 4: imagine what an effect we'd have if I added orange
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 4: and black. But it's such a nice, warm, thick felt
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 4: I hate to waste it. Would it be very improper
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 4: to have it made into a bathrobe. My old one
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 4: shrank when it was washed. I've entirely omitted of late
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 4: telling you what I'm learning. But though you might not
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 4: imagine it from my letters, my time is exclusively occupied
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 4: with study. It's a very bewildering matter to get educated
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  Speaker 4: in five branches at once. The test of true scholarship,
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  Speaker 4: says chemistry professor, is a painstaking passion for detail. Be
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 4: careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail, says
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  Speaker 4: History professor. Stand far enough away to get a perspective
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  Speaker 4: of the whole. You can see with what nicety we
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 4: have to trim our sales between chemistry and history. I
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 4: like the historical method best. If I say that William
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: the Conqueror came over in fourteen ninety two, and Columbus
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 4: discovered a man in eleven hundred or ten sixty six,
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  Speaker 4: or whatever it was, that's a mere detail that the
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 4: professor overlooks. It gives a feeling of security and restfulness
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 4: to the history recitation that is entirely lacking in chemistry.
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  Speaker 4: Six hour bell. I must go to the laboratory and
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 4: look into a little matter of acids and salts and alkalis.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 4: I've burned a hole as big as a plate in
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 4: the front of my chemistry apron with hydrochloric acid. If
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 4: the theory worked, I ought to be able to neutralize
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 4: that hole with good strong ammonia on time examinations next week.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 4: But who's afraid yours ever? Judy fifth March, Dear Daddy,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 4: long legs. There is a march wind blowing, and the
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 4: sky is filled with heavy, black moving clouds. The crows
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 4: in the pine trees are making such a clamor it's
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 4: an intoxicating, exhilarating calling noise. You want to close your
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 4: books and be off over the hills to race with
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 4: the wind. We had a paper chase last Saturday over
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 4: five miles of squashy cross country. The fox comped of
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 4: three girls and a bushel or so of confetti, started
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 4: half an hour before the twenty seven hunters. I was
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 4: one of the twenty seven eight dropped by the wayside
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 4: we ended nineteen. The trail led over a hill, through
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 4: a cornfield and into a swamp where we had to
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 4: leap lightly from hummock to hummock, and of course half
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 4: of us went in ankle deep. We kept losing the trail,
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 4: and we wasted twenty five minutes over that swamp, then
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 4: up a hill, through some woods, and in at a
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 4: barn window. The barn doors were all locked and the
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 4: window was up high and pretty small. I don't call
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 4: that fair, do you? But we didn't go through. We
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 4: circumnavigated the barn and picked up the trail where it
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 4: issued by way of a low shed roof on to
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 4: the top of the fence. The fox thought he had
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 4: us there, but we fooled him. Then straightway over two
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 4: miles of rolling meadow and awfully hard to follow, for
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 4: the confetti was getting sparse. The rule is that it
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 4: must be at the most six feet apart, but they
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 4: were the longest six feet I ever saw. Finally, after
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 4: two hours of steady trotting, we tracked Monsieur Fox into
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 4: the kitchen of Crystal Spring. That's a farm where the
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 4: girls go in bob sleighs and hay wagons for chicken
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 4: and waffle suppers, and we found the three foxes placidly
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 4: eating milk and honey and biscuits. They hadn't thought we
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 4: would get that far. They were expecting us to stick
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 4: in the barn window. Both sides insist that they won.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 4: I think we did, don't you, because we caught them
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 4: before they got back to campus. Anyway, all nineteen of
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 4: us settled like locusts over the furniture and clamored for honey.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 4: There wasn't enough to go around. But missus, Crystal Spring,
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 4: that's our pet name for her, she's by rights of Johnson,
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 4: brought up a jar of strawberry jam and a can
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 4: of maple syrup, just made last week, and three loaves
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 4: of brown bread. We didn't get back to college till
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 4: half past six, half an hour late for dinner, and
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 4: we went straight in without dressing and with perfectly unimpaired appetites.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 4: Then we all cut evening chapel, the state of our
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 4: boots being enough of an excuse. I never told you
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 4: about examinations. I passed everything with the utmost ease. I
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 4: know the secret now, and I'm never going to fail again.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 4: I shan't be able to graduate with honors, though, because
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 4: of that beastly Latin prose and geometry freshman year. But
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 4: I don't care what's the hodds, as long as you're happy.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 4: That's a quotation. I've been reading the English classics. Speaking
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 4: of classics, have you ever read Hamlet? If you haven't,
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 4: do it right off, it's perfectly corking. I've been hearing
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 4: about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 4: he really wrote so well. I always suspected him of
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 4: going largely on his reputation. I have a beautiful play
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 4: that I invented a long time ago. When I first
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 4: learned to read. I put myself to sleep every night
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 4: by pretending I'm the person, the most important person in
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 4: the book I'm reading at the moment at present. I'm Ophelia,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 4: and such a sensible Ophelia. I keep Hamlet amused all
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 4: the time, and pet him and scold him, and make
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 4: him wrap up his throat when he has a cold.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 4: I've entirely cured him of being melancholy. The King and
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 4: Queen are both dead an accident at sea, no funeral necessary,
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 4: so Hamlet and I are ruling in Denmark without any bother.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 4: The kingdom working beautifully. He takes care of the governing,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 4: and I look after the charities. I've just founded some
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 4: first class orphan asylums. If you or any of the
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 4: other trustees would like to visit them, I shall be
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 4: pleased to show you through. I think you might find
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 4: a great many helpful suggestions. I remain sir, yours, most graciously, Ophelia,
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 4: Queen of Denmark, twenty fourth March, maybe the twenty fifth,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 4: Dear Daddy Longlegs. I don't believe I can be going
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 4: to heaven. I am getting such a lot of good
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 4: things here it wouldn't be fair to get them here
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 4: after too. Listen to what has happened. Jerusha Abbott has
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 4: won the short Story Contest, a twenty five dollars prize
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 4: that the Monthly holds every year, and she's a sophomore.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 4: The contestants are mostly seniors. When I saw my name posted,
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 4: I couldn't quite believe it was true. Maybe I am
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 4: going to be an author after all. I wish missus
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 4: Lippett hadn't given me such a silly name. It sounds
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 4: like an authoress, doesn't it. Also, I have been chosen
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 4: for the spring dramatics as you like it. Out of doors,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be celia own cousin to Rosalind. And lastly,
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 4: Julia and Sally and I are going to New York
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 4: next Friday to do some spring shopping and stay all
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 4: night and go to the theater the next day with
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 4: Master Jerviy. He invited us. Julia is going to stay
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 4: at home with her family, but Sally and I are
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 4: going to stop at the Martha Washington Hotel. Did you
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 4: ever hear of anything so exciting? I've never been in
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 4: a hotel in my life, nor in a theater, except
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 4: once when the Catholic Church had a festival and invited
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 4: the Orphans. But that wasn't a real play and it
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 4: doesn't count. And what do you think? We're going to
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 4: see Hamlet? Think of that? We've studied it for four
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 4: weeks in Shakespeare class and I know it by heart.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 4: I am so excited over all these prospects that I
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 4: could scarcely sleep. Goodbye, Daddy, this is a very entertaining world.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 4: Yours ever, Judy p s. I've just looked at the calendar.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 4: It's the twenty eighth. Another PostScript, I saw a street
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 4: car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 4: wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 4: Seventh April, Dear Daddy, Longlegs, Mercy, isn't New York? Big
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 4: Wooster is nothing to it? Do you mean to tell
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 4: me that you actually live in all that confusion? I
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 4: don't believe that I shall recover for months from the
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 4: bewildering effect of two days of it. I can't begin
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 4: to tell you all the amazing things I've seen. I
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 4: suppose you know, though, since you live there yourself. But
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 4: aren't the streets entertaining? And the people and the shops?
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 4: I never saw such lovely things as there are in
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 4: the windows. It makes you want to devote your life
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 4: to wearing clothes. Sally and Julia and I went shopping
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 4: together Saturday morning. Julia went into the very most gorgeous
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 4: place I ever saw, white and gold walls, and blue
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 4: carpets and blue silk curtains and gilt chairs. A perfectly
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 4: beautiful lady with yellow hair and a long, black silk
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 4: trailing gown came to meet us with a welcoming smile.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 4: I thought we were paying a social call and started
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 4: to shake hands, but it seems we were only buying hats.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 4: At least Julia was. She sat down in front of
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 4: a mirror and tried on a dozen, each lovelier than
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 4: the last, and bought the two loveliest of all. I
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 4: can't imagine any joy in life greater than sitting down
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 4: in front of a mirror and buying any hat you
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 4: choose without having first to consider the price. There's no
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 4: doubt about it. Daddy New York would rapidly undermine this fine,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 4: stoical character which the John Greer Home so patiently built up.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 4: And after we'd finish our shopping, we met Master Jerviy
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 4: at Sherry's. I suppose you've been in Sherry's picture that
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 4: then picture the dining room of the John Greer Home,
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 4: with its oilcloth covered tables and white crockery that you
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 4: can't break, and wooden handled knives and forks, and fancy
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 4: the way I felt. I ate my fish with the
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 4: wrong fork, but the waiter very kindly gave me another,
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 4: so that nobody noticed. And after luncheon we went to
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 4: the theater. It was dazzling, marvelous, unbelievable. I dream about
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 4: it every night, isn't Shakespeare wonderful Hamlet is so much
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 4: better on the stage than when we analyze it in class.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 4: I appreciated it before, but now, dear me, I think
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 4: if you don't mind that, I'd rather be an actress
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 4: than a writer. Wouldn't you like me to leave college
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 4: and go into a dramatic school, And then I'll send
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 4: you a box for all my performances and smile at
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 4: you across the footlights. Only where a red rose in
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 4: your buttonhole, please, So I'll surely smile at the right man.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 4: It would be an awfully embarrassing mistake if I picked
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 4: out the wrong one. We came back Saturday night and
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 4: had our dinner in the train at little tables with
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 4: pink lamps and Negro waiters. I never heard of meals
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 4: being served in trains before, and I inadvertently said, so,
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 4: where on earth were you brought up, said Julia to me.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 4: In a village, said I meekly to Julia. But didn't
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 4: you ever try, oh, said she to me, Not till
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 4: I came to college. And then it was only one
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 4: hundred and sixty miles and we didn't eat, said I
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 4: to her. She's getting quite interested in me because I
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 4: say such funny things. I try hard not to, but
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 4: they do pop out when I'm surprised, and I'm surprised
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 4: most of the time. It's a dizzying experience, Daddy, to
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 4: pass eighteen years in the John Greer Home and then
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 4: suddenly to be plunged into the world. But I'm getting acclimated.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 4: I don't make such awful mistakes as I did, and
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 4: I don't feel uncomfortable anymore with the other girls. I
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 4: used to squirm whenever people looked at me. I felt
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 4: as though they saw right through my sham new clothes
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 4: to the Czech Ginghams underneath. But I'm not letting the
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 4: Ginghams bother me any more. Sufficient unto yesterday, is the
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 4: evil thereof I forgot to tell you about our flowers.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 4: Master Jerviy gave us each a big bunch of violets
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 4: and lilies of the valley. Wasn't that sweet of him?
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 4: I never used to care much for men judging by trustees,
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 4: but I'm changing my mind. Eleven pages. This is a
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 4: letter have courage. I'm going to say, stop yours always.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 4: Judy tenth April, Dear mister rich Man, here's your check
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 4: for fifty dollars. Thank you very much, but I do
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 4: not feel that I can keep it. My allowance is
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 4: sufficient to afford all the hats that I need. I
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 4: am sorry that I wrote all that silly stuff about
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 4: the millinery shop. It's just that I had never seen
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 4: anything like it before. However, I wasn't begging, and I
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 4: would rather not accept any more charity than I have to. Sincerely, Yours,
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 4: Jerusha Abbott, eleventh April. Dearest Daddy, will you please forgive
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 4: me for the letter I wrote you yesterday? After I
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 4: posted it, I was sorry and tried to get it back,
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 4: but that beastly mail clerk wouldn't give it back to me.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 4: It's the middle of the night now. I've been awake
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 4: for hours thinking what a worm I am? What a
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 4: thousand legged worm? And that's the worst I can say.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 4: I've closed the door very softly into the study so
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 4: as not to wake Julia and Sally, and I'm sitting
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 4: up in bed writing to you on paper torn out
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 4: of my history notebook. I just wanted to tell you
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 4: that I am sorry I was so impolite about your check.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 4: I know you meant it kindly, and I think you're
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 4: an old dear to take so much trouble for such
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 4: a silly thing as a hat. I ought to have
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 4: returned it very much more graciously, but in any case
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 4: I had to return it. It's different with me than
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 4: with other girls. They can take things naturally from people
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 4: they have fathers and brothers and aunts and uncles. But
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 4: I can't be on any such relations with anyone. I
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 4: like to pretend you belong to me, just to play
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 4: with the idea, but of course I know you don't.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 4: I'm alone, really, with my back to the wall, fighting
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 4: the world, and I get sort of gaspy when I
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 4: think about it. I put it out of my mind
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 4: and keep on pretending. But don't you see, Daddy. I
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 4: can't accept any more money than I have to, because
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 4: someday I should be wanting to pay it back, and
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 4: even as great an author as I intend to be,
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 4: won't be able to face a perfectly tremendous debt. I
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 4: love pretty hats and things, but I mustn't mortgage the
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 4: future to pay for them. You'll forgive me, won't you?
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 4: For being so rude. I have an awful habit of
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 4: writing impulsively when I first think things, and then posting
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 4: the letter beyond recall. But if I sometimes seem thoughtless
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 4: and ungrateful, I never mean it. In my heart. I
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 4: thank you always for the life and freedom and independence
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 4: that you have given me. My childhood was just a long,
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 4: sullen stretch of revolt, and now I am so happy
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 4: every moment of the day that I can't believe it's true.
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 4: I feel like I've made up heroine in the story book.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 4: It's a quarter past two. I'm going to tiptoe out
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 4: to post this off. Now. You'll receive it in the
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 4: next mail after the other, so you won't have a
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 4: very long time to think bad of me. Good night, Daddy,
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 4: I love you always. Judy fourth May dear Daddy. Long
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 4: Legs Field Day last Saturday. It was a very spectacular occasion. First,
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 4: we had a parade of all the classes, with everybody
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 4: dressed in white linen, the seniors carrying blue and gold
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 4: Japanese umbrellas and the junior's white and yellow banners. Our
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 4: class had crimson balloons, very fetching, especially as they were
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 4: always getting loose and floating off, and the fresh and
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 4: wore green tissue paper hats with long streamers. Also, we
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 4: had a band in blue uniforms hired from town. Also
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 4: about a dozen funny people like clowns in a circus
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 4: to keep the spectators entertained between events. Julia was dressed
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 4: as a fat country man with a linen duster and
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 4: whiskers and a baggy umbrella. Patsy Moriarty, Patricia, really did
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 4: you ever hear such a name? Missus Lippett couldn't have
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 4: done better? Who is tall and thin? Was Julia's wife
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 4: in an absurd green bonnet over one year. Waves of
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 4: laughter followed the whole length of the course. Julia played
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 4: the part extremely well. I never dreamed that a Pendleton
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 4: could display so much comedy spirit, Begging Master Jervy's pardon,
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 4: I don't consider him a true Pendleton, though, any more
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 4: than I consider you a true trustee. Sally and I
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 4: weren't in the parade because we were entered for the events,
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 4: And what do you think? We both won, at least
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 4: in something. We tried for the running broad jump and lost,
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 4: but Sally won the pole vaulting seven feet three inches
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 4: and I won the fifty yard sprint eight seconds. I
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 4: was pretty panting at the end, but it was great
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 4: fun with the whole class, waving balloons and cheering and
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 4: yelling what's the matter with Judy Abbot, che's all right?
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 5: Who's all right?
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 4: Judy Abbot? That daddy is true fame, then trotting back
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 4: to the dressing tent and being rubbed down with alcohol
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 4: and having a lemon to suck. You see, we're very professional.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 4: It's a fine thing to win an event for your class,
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 4: because the class that wins the most gets the Athletic
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 4: Cup for the year. The seniors won it this year
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 4: with seven events to their credit. The Athletic Association gave
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 4: a dinner in the gymnasium to all of the winners.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 4: We had fried soft shell crabs and chocolate ice cream
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 4: molded in the shape of basketballs. I sat up half
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 4: of last night reading Jane Eyre. Are you old enough,
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 4: Daddy to remember sixty years ago? And if so, did
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 4: people talk that way? The haughty lady Blanche says to
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 4: the footman, stop your chattering knave and do my bidding.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 4: Mister Rochester talks about the metal welkin when he means
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 4: the sky and asks for the mad woman, who laughs
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 4: like a hyena and sets fire to bed curtains and
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 4: tears of wedding veils and bites. It's melodrama of the
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 4: purest but just the same you read and read and read.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 4: I can't see how any girl could have written such
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 4: a book, especially any girl who was brought up in
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 4: a churchyard. There's something about those Brontes that fascinates me.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 4: Their books, their lives, their spirit. Where did they get it?
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 4: When I was reading about Little Jane's troubles in the
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 4: charity school, I got so angry that I had to
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 4: go out and take a walk. I understood exactly how
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 4: she felt. Having known missus Lippett, I could see mister Brocklehurst,
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 4: don't be outraged, daddy. I am not intimating that the
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 4: John Greer Home was like the Lowood Institute. We had
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 4: plenty to eat, plenty to wear, a sufficient water to
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 4: wash in, and a furnace in the cellar. But there
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 4: was one deadly likeness. Our lives were absolutely monotonous and uneventful.
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 4: Nothing nice ever happened. Ice cream on Sundays, and even
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 4: that was regular. In all the eighteen years I was there,
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 4: I only had one adventure. When the woodshed burned. We
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 4: had to get up in the night and dress so
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 4: as to be ready in case the house should catch.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 4: But it didn't catch, and we went back to bed.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 4: Everybody likes a few surprises, it's a perfectly natural human craving.
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 4: But I never had one until Missus Lippett called me
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 4: to the office to tell me that mister John Smith
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 4: was going to send me to college. And then she
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 4: broke the news so gradually that it just barely shocked me.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 4: You know, Daddy, I think the most necessary quality for
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 4: any person to have is imagination. It makes people able
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 4: to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 4: kind and sympathetic and understanding. It ought to be cultivated
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 4: in children, but the John Greer Home instantly stamped out
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 4: the slightest flicker that appeared. Duty was the one quality
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 4: that wasn't encouraged. I don't think children ought to know
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 4: the meaning of the word it's odious, detestable. They ought
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 4: to do everything from love. Wait till you see the
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 4: orphan asylum that I'm going to be the head of.
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 4: It's my favorite play. At night, before I go to sleep,
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 4: I plan it out to the littlest detail, the meals
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 4: and clothes and study and amusements and punishments for even
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 4: my superior. Orphans are sometimes bad, but anyway they're going
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 4: to be happy. I think that everyone, no matter how
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 4: many troubles he may have, when he grows up, ought
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 4: to have a happy childhood to look back upon. And
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 4: if I ever have any children of my own, no
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 4: matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 4: to let them have any cares until they grow up.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 4: There goes the chapel bell. I'll finish this letter sometime Thursday.
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 4: When I came in from laboratory this afternoon, I found
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 4: a squirrel sitting on the tea table helping himself to almonds.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 4: These are the kind of callers we entertain now that
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 4: warm weather has come and the windows stay open Saturday morning.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 4: Perhaps you think last night, being Friday with no classes today,
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 4: that I passed a nice, quiet, readable evening with the
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 4: set of Stevenson that I bought with my prize money.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 4: But if so, you've never attended a girls college. Daddy. Dear,
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 4: six friends dropped in to make fudge, and one of
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 4: them dropped the fudge while it was still liquid, right
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 4: in the middle of our best rug. We shall never
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 4: be able to clean up the mess. I haven't mentioned
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 4: any lessons of late, but we are still having them
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 4: every day. It's sort of a relief, though, to get
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 4: away from them and discuss life in the large rather
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 4: one sided discussions that you and I hold. But that's
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 4: your own fault. You're welcome to answer back any time
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 4: you choose. I've been writing this letter off and on
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 4: for three days, and I fear by now. Vouzette biem bored, goodbye,
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 4: nice mister man Judy, mister Daddy longlegs smith Sir. Having
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 4: completed the study of argumentation and the science of dividing
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 4: a thesis into heads, I've decided to adopt the following
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 4: form for letter writing. It contains all necessary facts but
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 4: no unnecessary verbiage. One. We had written examinations this week
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 4: in A chemistry B History. Two. A new dormitory is
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 4: being built A. Its material is a red brick B
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 4: greystone B. Its capacity will be A one dean, five instructors,
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 4: B two hundred girls, C one housekeeper, three cooks, twenty waitresses,
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 4: twenty chambermaids. Three. We had junket for dessert tonight. Four
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 4: I am writing a special topic upon the sources of
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 4: Shakespeare's plays. Five lou McMann slipped and fell this afternoon
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 4: at basketball, and she a dislocated her shoulder. B brews
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 4: her knee. Six. I have a new hat trimmed with
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 4: a blue velvet ribbon. B two blue quills, C three
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 4: reb pom poms. Seven. It is half past nine. Eight.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 4: Good night, Judy.
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 6: End of Part five, Part six, second June. Dear Daddy,
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 6: long legs, you will never guess the nice thing that
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 6: has happened. The mcbrides have asked me to spend the
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 6: summer at their camp in the Adirondacks. They belong to
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 6: a sort of club on a lovely little lake in
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 6: the middle of the woods. The different members have houses
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 6: made of logs dotted about among the trees, and they
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 6: go canoeing on the lake and take long walks through
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 6: the trails to the other camps, and have dances once
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 6: a week in the club house. Jimmy mc bride is
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 6: going to have a college friend visiting him part of
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 6: the summer, so you see, we shall have plenty of
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 6: men to dance with. Wasn't it sweet of missus mc
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 6: bride to ask me? It appears that she liked me
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 6: when I was there for Christmas. Please excuse this being short.
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 6: It isn't a real letter. It's just to let you
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 6: know that I am disposed of for the summer. Yours
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 6: in a very contented frame of mind. Judy, fifth June.
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 6: Dear Daddy long Legs, your secretary man has just written
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 6: to me saying that mister Smith prefers that I should
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 6: not accept missus mc bride's invitation, but should return to Lockwillow,
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 6: the same as last year. Why why, why, Daddy, you
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 6: don't understand about it. Missus mc bride does want me,
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 6: really and truly. I'm not the least bit of trouble
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 6: in the house.
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 5: I'm a help.
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 6: They don't take up many servants, and Sallie and I
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 6: can do lots of useful things. It's a fine chance
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 6: for me to learn housekeeping. Every woman ought to understand it,
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 6: and I only know asylum keeping. There aren't any girls
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 6: our age at the camp, and Missus mc bride wants
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 6: me for a companion for Sallie. We are planning to
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 6: do a lot of reading together. We are going to
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 6: read all the books for next year's English and Sociology.
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 6: The professor said it would be a great help if
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 6: we would get our reading finished in the summer and
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 6: it's so much easier to remember it if we read
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 6: together and pock it over. Just to live in the
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 6: same house with Sallie's mother is an education. She's the
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 6: most interesting, entertaining, companionable, charming woman in the world. She
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 6: knows everything. Think how many summers I've spent with missus Lippett,
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 6: and how I'll appreciate the contrast. You needn't be afraid
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 6: that I'll be crowding them, for their house is made
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 6: of rubber. When they have a lot of company, they
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 6: just sprinkle tents about it in the woods and turn
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 6: the boys outside. It's going to be such a nice,
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 6: healthy summer exercising out of doors every minute. Jimmy mc
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 6: bride is going to teach me how to ride horseback
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 6: and paddle a canoe, and how to shoot, and oh
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 6: lots of things I ought to know. It's the kind
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 6: of nice, jolly, care free time that I've never had,
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 6: and I think every girl deserves it once in her life.
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 6: Of course, I'll do exactly as you say, but please
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 6: please let me go, Daddy. I've never wanted anything so much.
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 6: This isn't Jerusha Abbott, the future great author writing to you.
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 6: It's just Judy a girl. Ninth June, mister John Smith, Sir,
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 6: yours of the seventh Instant at hand. In compliance with
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 6: the instructions received through your secretary, I leave on Friday
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 6: next to spend the summer at lock Willow Farm. I
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 6: hope always to remain Miss Jerusha Abbott, lock Willow Farm,
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 6: third August. Dear Daddy long legs, it has been nearly
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 6: two months since I wrote, which wasn't nice of me.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 6: I know, but I haven't loved you much this summer.
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 6: You see, I'm being frank. You can't imagine how disappointed
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 6: I was at having to give up the mc bride's camp.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 6: Of course, I know that you're my guardian and that
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 6: I have to regard your wishes in all matters.
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 5: But I couldn't see any reason.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 6: It was so distinctly the best thing that could have
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 6: happened to me. If I had been Daddy and you
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 6: had been Judy, I should have said, bless you, my child.
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 6: Run along and have a good time, see lots of
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 6: new people, and learn lots of new things, live out
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 6: of doors, and get strong and well and rested for
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 6: a year of hard work. But not at all, just
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 6: a curt line from your secretary ordering me to lock Willow.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 6: It's the impersonality of your commands that hurts my feelings.
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 6: It seems as though if you've felt the tiniest little
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 6: bit for me the way I feel.
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 5: For you, you'd.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 6: Sometimes send me a message that you'd written with your
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 6: own hand instead of those beastly typewritten secretary's notes. If
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 6: there were the slightest hint that you cared, I'd do
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 6: anything on earth to please you. I know that I
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 6: was to write nice, long, detailed letters without ever expecting
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 6: any answer. You're living up to your side of the bargain.
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 6: I'm being educated, and I suppose you're thinking I'm not
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 6: living up to mine. But Daddy, it is a hard bargain.
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 5: It is really.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 6: I'm so awfully lonely. You are the only person I
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 6: have to care for, and you are so shadowy.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 5: You're just an.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 6: Imaginary man that I've made up, and probably the real
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 6: you isn't a bit like my imaginary you. But you
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 6: did once, when I was ill in the infirmary, send
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 6: me a message. And now, when I am feeling awfully forgotten,
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 6: I get out your card and read it over. I
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 6: don't think I am telling you at all what I
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 6: started to say, which was this, although my feelings are
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 6: still hurt, for it is very humiliating to be picked
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 6: up and moved about by an arbitrary peremptory, unreasonable, omnipotent,
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 6: invisible providence. Still, when a man has been as kind
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 6: and generous and thoughtful as you have heretofore been towards me,
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 6: I suppose he has right to be an arbitrary peremptory, unreasonable,
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 6: invisible providence if he chooses. And so I'll forgive you
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 6: and be cheerful again. But I still don't enjoy getting
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 6: Sally's letters about the good times they are having in camp. However,
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 6: we will draw a veil over that and begin again.
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 6: I've been writing and writing this summer, four short stories
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 6: finished and sent to four different magazines, so you see
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to be an author. I have a workroom
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 6: fixed in a corner of the attic where Master Jervy
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 6: used to have his rainy day playroom. It's in a cool,
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 6: breezy corner with two dormer windows and shaded by a
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 6: maple tree, with a family of red squirrels living in
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 6: a hole. I'll write a nicer letter in a few
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 6: days and tell you all the farm news we need
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 6: rain yours as ever, Judy tenth August, Mister Daddy long legs, Sir,
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 6: I address you from the second crotch in the willow
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 6: tree by the pool and the pasture. There's a frog
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 6: croaking underneath, a locust singing overhead, and two little devil
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 6: down heads darting up and down the trunk. I've been
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 6: here for an hour. It's a very comfortable crotch, especially
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 6: after being upholstered with two sofa cushions. I came up
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 6: with a pen and tablet, hoping to write an immortal
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 6: short story. But I've been having a dreadful time with
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 6: my heroine. I can't make her behave as I want
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 6: her to behave, so I've abandoned her for the moment
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 6: and am writing to you. Not much relief, though, for
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 6: I can't make you behave as I want to either.
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 6: If you are in that dreadful New York, I wish
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 6: I could send you some of this lovely, breezy, sunshiny outlook.
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 6: The country is heaven after a week of rain. Speaking
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 6: of heaven, do you remember, mister Kellogg, that I told
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 6: you about last summer, the minister of the little white
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 6: church at the corners, well, the poor old soul is
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 6: dead last winter of pneumonia. I went half a dozen
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 6: times to hear him preach and got very well acquainted
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 6: with his theology. He believed to the end exactly the
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 6: same things he started with. It seems to me that
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 6: a man who can think straight along for forty seven
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 6: years without changing a single idea ought to be kept
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 6: in a cabinet as a curiosity. I hope he is
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 6: enjoying his harp and golden crown. He was so perfectly
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 6: sure of finding them. There's a new young man, very
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 6: consequential in his place. The congregation is pretty dubious, especially
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 6: the faction led by Deacon Commings. It looks as though
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 6: there was going to be an awful split in the church.
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 6: We don't care for innovations and religion in this neighborhood.
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 6: During our week of rain, I sat up in the
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 6: attic and had an orgy of reading Stevenson. Mostly, he
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 6: himself is more entertaining than any of the characters in
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 6: his books. I dare say he made himself into the
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 6: kind of hero that would look well in print. Don't
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 6: you think it was perfect of him to spend all
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 6: the ten thousand dollars his father left for a yacht
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 6: and go sailing off to the South seas. He lived
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 6: up to his adventurous creed. If my father had left
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 6: me ten thousand dollars, I'd do it too. The thought
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 6: of Vleima makes me wild. I want to see the tropics.
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 6: I want to see the whole world. I'm going to
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 6: be a great author or artist, or actress or play
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 6: right or whatever sort of a great person I turn
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 6: out to be. I have a terrible wanderthirst. The very
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 6: sight of a map makes me want to put on
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 6: my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 6: see before I die. The palms and temples of the South.
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 6: Thursday evening at twilight, sitting on the doorstep, very hard
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 6: to get any news into this letter. Judy is becoming
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 6: so philosophical of late that she wishes to discourse largely
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 6: of the world in general, instead of descending to the
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 6: trivial details of daily life. But if you must have
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 6: news here it is our nine young pigs waited across
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 6: the brook and ran away last Tuesday, and only eight
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 6: came back. We don't want to accuse any one unjustly,
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 6: but we suspect that widow Dowd has won more than
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 6: she ought to have. Mister Weaver has painted his barn
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 6: and his two silos in a bright pumpkin yellow, a
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 6: very ugly color, but he says it will wear. The
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 6: brewers have company this week, missus Brewer's sister and two
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 6: nieces from Ohio. One of our Rhode Island reds only
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 6: brought off three chicks out of fifteen eggs. We can't
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 6: imagine what was the trouble. Rhode Island reds, in my opinion,
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 6: are of very inferior breed. I prefer buff Orpringkings. The
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 6: new clerk in the post office at Bonnie Rig four
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 6: corners drank every drop of Jamaica ginger they had in stock,
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 6: seven dollars worth before he was discovered. Old Ira Hatch
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 6: has rheumatism and can't work any more. He never saved
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 6: his money when he's earning good wages, so now he
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 6: has to live on the town. There's to be an
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 6: ice cream social at the schoolhouse next Saturday evening. Come
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 6: and bring your families. I have a new hat that
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 6: I bought twenty five cents at the post office. This
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 6: is my latest portrait on my way to rake the hay.
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 6: It's getting too dark to see anyway. The news is
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 6: all used up. Good night, Judy Friday, Good morning, here
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 6: is some news. What do you think you'd never never guess?
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 6: Who's coming to lock Willow? A letter to missus Semple
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 6: from mister Pendleton. He's motoring through the Berkshires and is
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 6: tired and wants to rest at a nice quiet farm.
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 6: If he climbs out at her doorsteps some night, will
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 6: she have a room ready for him. Maybe he'll stay
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 6: one week, or maybe two, or maybe three. He'll see
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 6: how RESTful it is when he gets here. Such a
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 6: flutter as we are in the whole house is being
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 6: cleaned and all the curtains washed. I am driving to
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 6: the corners this morning to get some new oil cloth
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 6: to the entry and two cans of brown floor paint
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 6: for the hall and back stairs. Missus Dowd is engaged
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 6: to come tomorrow to wash the windows. In the exigency
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 6: of the moment, we wave our suspicions in regard to
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 6: the piglet. You might think from this account of our
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 6: activities that the house was not already immaculate. But I
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 6: assure you, however, it was whatever missus Semple's limitations. She
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 6: is a housekeeper. But isn't it just like a man daddy.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 6: He doesn't give the remotest hint as to whether he
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 6: will land on the doorstep to day or two weeks
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 6: from to day. We shall live in a perpetual breathlessness
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 6: until he comes. And if he doesn't hurry, the cleaning
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 6: may all have to be done over again. There's AMESI
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 6: waiting below with the buckboard and grover. I drive alone,
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 6: but if you could see old grove, you wouldn't be
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 6: worried as to my safety. With my hand on my heart, farewell, Judy, Yes,
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 6: isn't that a nice ending? I got it out of
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 6: Stephenson's letters Saturday?
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 5: Good morning Again.
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 6: I didn't get this envelope yesterday before the postman came,
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 6: so I'll add some more. We have one mail a
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 6: day at twelve o'clock. Rural delivery is a blessing to
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 6: the farmers. Our postman not only delivers letters, but he
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 6: runs errands for us in town at five cents an
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 6: Errand yesterday he brought me some shoe strings and a
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 6: jar of cold cream I sun burned all the skin
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 6: off my nose before I got my new hat and
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 6: a blue windsor tie and a bottle of blacking all
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 6: for ten cents. That was an unusual bargain owing to
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 6: the largeness of my order. Also, he tells us what
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 6: is happening in the great world. Several people on the
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 6: route take daily papers, and he reads them as he
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 6: jogs along and repeats the news to the ones who
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 6: don't subscribe. So in case a war breaks out between
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 6: the United States and Japan, or the president is assassinated,
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 6: or mister Rockefeller leaves a million dollars to the John Greerholme,
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 6: you needn't father to write, I'll hear it anyway. No
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 6: sign yet of Master Jerviy.
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 5: But you should see.
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 6: How clean our house is, and with what anxiety we
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 6: wipe our feet before we step in. I hope he'll
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 6: come soon. I am longing for some one to talk
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 6: to missus Semple, to tell you the truth. It's rather monotonous.
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 6: She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 6: It's a funny thing about the people here. Their world
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 6: is just this single hilltop. They are not a bit universal.
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 6: If you know what I mean. It's exactly the same
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 6: as at the John greerhome. Our ideas there were bounded
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 6: by the four sides of the iron fence. Only I
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 6: didn't mind it so much because I was younger and
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 6: was so awfully busy. By the time I'd got all
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 6: my beds made and my baby's faces washed, and had
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 6: gone to school and come home and wash their faces again,
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 6: and darned their stockings and mended Freddy Perkins's trousers. He
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 6: tore them every day of his life, and learned my
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 6: lessons in between. I was ready to go to bed,
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 6: and I didn't notice any lack of social intercourse. But
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 6: after two years in a conversational college, I do miss it,
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 6: and I shall be glad to see somebody who speaks
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 6: my language. I really believe I've finished, Daddy. Nothing else
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 6: occurs to me at the moment. I'll try to write
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 6: a longer letter next time. Yours always, Judy p. S.
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 6: The lettuce hasn't done it all well this year. It
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 6: was so dry early in the season. Twenty fifth August. Well, Daddy,
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 6: Master Jerviy's here, and such a nice time as we're having.
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 6: At least I am and I think he is too.
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 6: He has been here ten days and doesn't show any
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 6: signs of going the way missus semple pampers that man
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 6: iss if she indulged him as much when he was
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 6: a baby, I don't know how he ever, turned out
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 6: so well. He and I eat at a little table
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 6: set on the side porch, or sometimes under the trees,
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 6: or when it rains or is cold in the best parlor.
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 6: He just picks out the spot he wants to eat
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 6: in and carry trots after him with the table. Then
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 6: if it has been an awful nuisance and she has
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 6: had to carry the dishes very far, she finds a
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 6: dollar under the sugar bowl. He is an awfully companionable
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 6: sort of man, though you would never believe it to
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 6: see him casually. He looks at first glance just like
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 6: a true Pendleton, but he isn't in the least. He
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 6: is just as simple and unaffected and as sweet as
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 6: can be. That seems a funny way to describe a man,
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 6: but it's true. He's extremely nice with the farmers round here.
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 6: He meets them in a sort of man to man
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 6: fashion that disarms them immediately. They were very suspicious at first.
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 6: They didn't care for his clothes. I will say that
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 6: his clothes are It's rather amazing. He wears knickerbockers and
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 6: pleated jackets and white flannels and riding clothes with puffed trousers.
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 6: Whenever he comes down in anything new, Missus Semple, beaming
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 6: with pride, walks around and views him from every angle
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 6: and urges him to be careful where he sits down.
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 6: She is so afraid he will pick up some dust.
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 6: It bores him dreadfully. He is always saying to her,
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 6: run along, Lizzie, and tend to your work. You can't
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 6: boss me any longer. I've grown up. It's awfully funny
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 6: to think of that great, big, long legged man. He's
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 6: nearly as long legged as you daddy ever, sitting in
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 6: Missus Semple's lap and having his face washed. Particularly funny
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 6: when you see her lap. She has two laps now
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 6: and three chins. But he says that once she was
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 6: thin and wiry and spry and could run faster than he.
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 6: Such a lot of adventures were having. We've explored the
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 6: country for miles, and I've learned to fish with funny
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 6: little flies made of feathers, also to shoot with a
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 6: rifle and a revolver. Also to ride horseback. There's an
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 6: astonishing amount of life an old grove. We fed him
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 6: on oats for three days, and he shied a calf
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 6: and almost ran away with me.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 5: Wednesday.
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 6: We climbed Sky Hill Monday afternoon. That's a mountain near here,
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 6: not an off the high mountain. Perhaps no snow on
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 6: the summit, but at least you are pretty breathless when
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 6: you reach the top. The lower slopes are covered with woods,
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 6: but the top is just piled rocks and open more.
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 6: We stayed up for the sunset and built a fire
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 6: and cooked our supper. Master Jervy did the cooking. He
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 6: said he knew how better than me, and he did too,
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 6: because he's used to camping. Then we came down by moonlight,
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 6: and when we reached the wood trail where it was
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 6: dark by the light of an electric bulb that he
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 6: had in his pocket. Hill was such fun. He laughed
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 6: and joked all the way and talked about interesting things.
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 6: He's read all the books I've ever read, and a
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 6: lot of others. Besides, it's a stonishing how many different
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 6: things he knows. We went for a long tramp this morning,
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 6: and got caught in a storm. Our clothes were drenched
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 6: before we reached home, but our spirit's not even damp.
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 6: You should have seen missus Semple's face when we'd ripped
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 6: into her kitchen. Oh, Master, Jerviy, Miss Judy, you are
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 6: soaked through. Dear dear, what shall I do? That nice
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 6: new coat is perfectly ruined. She was awfully funny. You
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 6: would have thought that we were ten years old and
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 6: she had distracted mother. I was afraid for a while
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 6: that we weren't going to get any jam for tea Saturday.
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 6: I started this letter ages ago, but I haven't had
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 6: a second to finish it. Isn't this a nice stought
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 6: from Stephenson? The world is so full of a number
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 6: of things. I am sure we should all be as
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 6: happy as kings. It's true, you know, the world is
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 6: full of happiness and plenty to go round if you
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 6: are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 6: The whole secret is in being pliable. In the country especially,
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 6: there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 6: walk over everybody's land and look at everybody's view, and
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 6: dabble in everybody's brook.
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 5: And enjoy it.
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 6: Just as much as though I owned the land, and
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 6: with no taxes to pay. It's Sunday night now, about
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 6: eleven o'clock, and I am supposed to be getting some
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 6: beauty sleep, but I had black coffee for dinner, So
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 6: no beauty sleep for me this morning, said missus Temple
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 6: to mister Pendleton, with a very determined accent. We have
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 6: to leave here at a quarter past ten in order
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 6: to get to church by eleven. Very well, Lizzie said,
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 6: Master Jerviy, you have the buggy ready, and if I'm
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 6: not dressed, just go on without waiting. We'll wait, said she,
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 6: as you please, said he, only don't keep the horses
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 6: standing too long. Then while she was dressing, he told
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 6: carry to pack up a lunch, and he told me
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 6: to scramble into my walking clothes, and we slipped out
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 6: the back way and went fishing. It discommoded the household
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 6: dreadfully because lock Willow of a Sunday dines at two,
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 6: but he ordered dinner at seven. He orders meals whenever
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 6: he chooses.
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 5: You would think the.
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 6: Place where a restaurant, and that kept Carrie and AMESI
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 6: from going driving. But he said it was all the
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 6: better because it wasn't proper for them to go driving
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 6: without a chaperone, And anyway, he wanted the horses himself,
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 6: take me driving? Did you ever hear anything so funny?
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 6: And poor missus Semple believes that people who go fishing
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 6: on Sundays will afterwards go to a sizzling hot hell.
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 6: She's awfully troubled to think that she didn't train him
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 6: better when he was small and helpless, and she had
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 6: the chance. Besides, she wished to show him.
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 5: Off from church.
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 6: Anyway, we had our fishing. He caught four little ones
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 6: and we cooked them on a camp fire for lunch.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 6: They kept falling off our spiked sticks into the fire,
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 6: so they tasted a little ashy, but we ate them.
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 6: We got home at four, and went driving at five,
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 6: and had dinner at seven, and at ten I was
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 6: sent to bed, And here I am writing to you.
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 6: I am getting a little sleepy though good night. Here
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 6: is a picture of the one fish I caught, ship
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 6: ahoy cap'ain, longlegs, a vast be lay yo ho ho,
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 6: and a bottle of rum. Guess what I'm reading. Our
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 6: conversation in these past two days has been nautical and
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 6: PI radical isn't Treasure Island fun. Did you ever read it?
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 6: Or wasn't it written when you were a boy? Stephenson
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 6: only got thirty pounds for the serial rights. I don't
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 6: believe it pays to be a great author. Maybe I'll
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 6: be a school teacher. Excuse me for filling my letters
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 6: so full of Stevenson. My mind is very much engaged
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 6: with him at present. He comprises lock Willow's Library. I've
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 6: been writing this letter for two weeks, and I think
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 6: it's about long enough. Never say, Daddy that I don't
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 6: give details. I wish you were here too. We'd all
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 6: have such a jolly time together. I like my different
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 6: friends to know each other. I wanted to ask mister
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 6: Pendleton if he knew you in New York. I should
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 6: think he might. You must move in about the same
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 6: exalted social circles, and you are both interested in reforms
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 6: and things. But I couldn't for I don't know your
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 6: real name. It's the silliest thing I ever heard of,
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 6: not to know your name. Missus Lippett warned me that
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 6: you were eccentric. I should think so affectionately. Judy p s.
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 6: On reading this over, I find that it isn't all Stephenson.
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 6: There are one or two glancing references to Master Jerviy
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 6: tenth September, Dear Daddy, he has gone and we are
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 6: missing him. When you get accustomed to people or places
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 6: or ways of living and then have them snatched away,
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 6: it does leave an awfully empty, gnawing sort of sensation.
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 6: I'm finding missus Semple's conversation pretty unseasoned. Food College opens
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 6: in two weeks, and I shall be glad to begin
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 6: work again. I have worked quite a lot this summer, though.
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 6: Six short stories and seven poems. Those I sent to
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 6: the magazines all came back with the most courteous promptitude.
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 6: But I don't mind. It's good practice. Master Jervy read them.
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 6: He brought in the post, so I couldn't help his knowing,
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 6: and he said they were dreadful. They showed that I
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 6: didn't have the slightest idea of what I was talking about.
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 6: Master Jervy doesn't let politeness interfere with truth. But the
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 6: last one I did just a little sketch late in college.
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 6: He said wasn't bad, and he had it typewritten, and
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 6: I sent it to a magazine. They've had it two weeks,
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 6: maybe they're thinking it over. You should see the sky.
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 6: There's the queerest orange colored light over everything. We're going
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 6: to have a storm. It commenced just that moment, with
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 6: tremendously big drops and all the shutters banging. I had
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 6: to run to close the windows, while Carrie flew to
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 6: the attic with an armful of milk pans to put
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 6: under the places where the roof leaks. And then just
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 6: as I was resuming my pen, I remembered that I'd
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 6: left a cushion and drug and hat and Matthew Arnold's
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 6: poems under a tree in the orchard, so I dashed
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 6: out to get them, all quite soaked. The red cover
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 6: of the poems had run into the inside. Dover Beach
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 6: in the future will be washed by pink waves. A
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 6: storm is awfully disturbing in the country. You're always having
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 6: to think of so many things that are out of
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 6: doors and getting spoiled. Thursday, Daddy, Daddy, what do you think?
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 6: The postman has just come with two letters? First, my
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 6: story is accepted fifty dollars a lore. I am an author.
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 6: Second a letter from the college secretary. I'm to have
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 6: a scholarship for two years that will cover board and tuition.
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 6: It was founded for marked proficiency in English with general
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 6: excellency in other lines, and I've won it. I applied
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 6: for it before I left, but I didn't have an
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 6: idea i'd get it on account of my freshman bad
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 6: work in maths and Latin. But it seems I've made
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 6: it up. I am awfully glad, Daddy, because now I
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 6: won't be such a burden to you. The monthly allowance
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 6: will be all all neat, and maybe I can earn
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 6: that with writing or tutoring or something. I'm longing to
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 6: go back and begin work yours ever. Jerusha Abbott, author
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 6: of When the Sophomores Won the Game for sale at
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 6: all newsstands, price ten cents. End of Part six, Part seven,
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 6: twenty sixth September. Dear Daddy, long Legs, back at college
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 6: again and an upper classman. Our study is better than
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 6: ever This year faces the South with two huge windows
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 6: and oh so furnished. Julia with an unlimited allowance, arrived
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 6: two days early and was attacked with a fever for settling.
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 6: We have new wallpaper and oriental rugs and mahogany chairs
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 6: not painted mahogany, which made us sufficiently happy last year,
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 6: but real it's very gorgeous. But I don't feel as
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 6: though I belong did it. I'm nervous all the time
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 6: for fear I'll get an inkspot in the wrong place.
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 6: And Daddy, I found your letter waiting for me. Pardon,
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 6: I mean your secretaries. Will you kindly convey to me
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 6: a comprehensible reason why I should not accept that scholarship.
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 6: I don't understand your objection in the least, but anyway,
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 6: it won't do the slightest good for you to object,
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 6: for I've already accepted it and I am not going
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 6: to change. That sounds a little impertinent, but I don't
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 6: mean it. So I suppose you feel that when you
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 6: set out to educate me, you'd like to finish the
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 6: work and put a neat period in the shape of
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 6: a diploma at the end. But look at it just
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 6: a second. From my point of view, I shall owe
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 6: my education to you just as much as though I
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 6: let you pay for the whole of it, but I
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 6: won't be quite so much indebted. I know that you
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 6: don't want me to return the money, but nevertheless, I'm
• 2:20:53
  Speaker 6: going to want to do it if I possibly can.
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 6: And winning this scholarship makes it so much easier. I
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 6: was expecting to spend the rest of my life in
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 6: paying my debts, but now I shall only have to
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 6: spend one half of the rest of it. I hope
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 6: you'll understand my position and won't be cross the allowance.
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 6: I shall still most gratefully accept. It requires an allowance
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 6: to live up to Julia and her furniture. I wish
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 6: that she had been reared to simpler tastes, or else
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 6: that she were not my room mate. This isn't much
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 6: of a letter. I meant to have written a lot,
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 6: but I've been hemming four window curtains and three portiers.
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 6: I'm glad you can't see the link of the stitches.
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 6: And polishing a brass desk set with tooth powder, very
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 6: uphill work, and sawing off picture wire with manicure scissors,
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 6: and unpacking four boxes of books and putting away two
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 6: trunkfuls of clothes. It doesn't seem believable that Jerusha Abbot
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 6: owns two trunks full of clothes, but she does. And
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 6: welcoming back fifty dear friends in between. The opening day
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 6: is a joyous occasion. Good night, Daddy, dear, and don't
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 6: be annoyed because your chick is wanting to scratch for herself.
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 6: She's growing up in an awfully energetic little hand with
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 6: a little determined cluck in lots of beautiful feathers, all
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 6: due to you, Affectionately, Judy thirtieth September, Dear Daddy, are
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 6: you still harping on that scholarship? I never knew a
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 6: man so obstinate and stubborn and unreasonable and tenacious and
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 6: bull doggish and unable to see other people's points of
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 6: view as you. You prefer that I should not be
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 6: accepting favorites from strangers. Strangers, and what are you pray?
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 6: Is there anyone in the world that I know less?
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 6: I shouldn't recognize you if I met you in the street. Now,
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 6: you see, if you had been a sane, sensible person
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 6: and had written nice, cheering fatherly letters to your little Judy,
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 6: and had come occasionally impatted her on the head and
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 6: said you were glad she was such a good girl,
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 6: then perhaps she wouldn't have flouted you in your old age,
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 6: but would have obeyed your slightest wish, like the dutiful
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 6: daughter she was meant to be. Strangers. Indeed, you live
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 6: in a glass house, mister Smith. And besides, this isn't
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 6: a favor. It's like a prize. I earned it by
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 6: hard work. If nobody had been good enough in English,
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 6: the committee wouldn't have awarded the scholarship. Some years they don't. Also,
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 6: but what's the use of arguing with the man you belong,
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 6: mister Smith to a sex devoid of a sense of logic.
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 5: To bring a man.
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 6: Into line, there are just two methods. One must either
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 6: coax or be disagreeable. I scorned coax men for what
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 6: I wish. Therefore I must be disagreeable. I refuse, sir,
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 6: to give up the scholarship, And if you make any
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 6: more fuss, I won't accept the monthly allowance either, but
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 6: will wear myself into a nervous wreck tutoring stupid freshman.
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 6: That is my ultimatum. And listen, I have a further thought.
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 6: Since you are so afraid that by taking this scholarship,
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 6: I am depriving some one else of an education, I
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 6: know a way out. You can apply the money that
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 6: you would have spent for me toward educating some other
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 6: little girl from the John Greer Home. Don't you think
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 6: that's a nice idea. Only Daddy, educate the new girl
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 6: as much as you choose, but please don't like her
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 6: any better than me. I trust that your secretary won't
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 6: be hurt because I pay so little attention to the
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 6: suggestions he offered in his letter. But I can't help
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 6: it if he is. He's a spoiled child. Daddy. I've
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 6: meekly given in to his whims heretofore, But this time
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 6: I intend to be firm yours, with a mind completely
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 6: and irrevocably and whirled without end made up. Jerusha Abbott,
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 6: ninth November. Dear Daddy, long legs. I started down town
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 6: to day to buy a bottle of shoe blacking and
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 6: some collars into the material for a new blouse, and
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 6: a jar of violet cream and a cake of castile soap,
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 6: all very necessary. I couldn't be happy another day without them.
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 6: And when I tried to pay the car fare, I
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 6: found that I had left my purse in the pocket
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 6: of my other coat, so I had to get out
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 6: and take the next car, and was late for gymnasium.
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 6: It's a dreadful thing to have no memory in two coats.
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 6: Julia Pendleton has invited me to visit her for the
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 6: Christmas holidays. How does that strike you, mister Smith? Fancy
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 6: Jerusha abbot of the John Greerholme sitting at the tables
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 6: of the rich. I don't know why Julia wants me.
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 6: She seems to be getting quite attached to me of late.
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 6: I should, tell the truth very much prefer going to Sallie's,
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 6: but Julia asked me first, So if I go anywhere,
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 6: it must be to New York instead of to Worcester.
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 6: I'm rather odd at the prospect of meeting Pendleton's en mass,
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 6: and also I have to get a lot of new clothes.
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 6: So Daddy dear, if you write that you would prefer
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 6: having me remain quietly at college, I will bow to
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 6: your wishes with my usual sweet facility. I'm engaged at
• 2:25:45
  Speaker 6: odd moments with the life and letters of Thomas Huxley.
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 6: It makes nice light reading to pick up between times.
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 6: Do you know what an archaeopteryx is? It's a bird
• 2:25:55
  Speaker 6: and to Stereognathus. I'm not sure myself, but I think
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 6: it's a miss like a bird with teeth or a
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 6: lizard with wings. No, it isn't either. I've just looked
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 6: in the book. It's a mesozoic mammal. I've elected economics
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 6: this year, very illuminating subject. When I finished that, I'm
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 6: going to take charity and reform. Then, mister Trustee, I'll
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 6: know just how an orphan asylum ought to be run.
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 6: Don't you think I'd make an admirable rotor if I
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 6: had my rights? I was twenty one last week. This
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 6: is an awfully wasteful country to throw away such an honest, educated, conscientious,
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 6: intelligent citizen as I would be yours always. Judy, seventh December.
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 6: Dear Daddy Longlegs, thank you from your permission to visit Julia.
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 6: I take it that silence means consent. Such a social
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 6: whirl as we've been having. The Founder's Dance came last week.
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 6: This was the first year that any of us could attend,
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 6: only upperclassmen being allowed. I invited Jimmy mc bride, and
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 6: Sally invited his roommate at Princeton, who is visited them
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 6: last summer at their camp, an awfully nice man with
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 6: red hair. And Julia invited a man from New York,
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 6: not very exciting but socially irreproachable. He is connected with
• 2:27:11
  Speaker 6: the de la Matterire Chichesters. Perhaps that means something to you.
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 6: It doesn't illuminate me to any extent. However, our guests
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 6: came Friday afternoon in time for tea in the Senior Corridor,
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 6: and then dashed down to the hotel for dinner. The
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 6: hotel was so full that they slept in rows on
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 6: the billiard's tables. They say Jimmy McBride says that the
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 6: next time he has bidden to a social event in
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 6: this college, he is going to bring one of their
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 6: Adirondack tents and pitch it on the campus. At seven
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 6: thirty they came back for the President's reception and dance.
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 6: Our functions commence early. We had the men's cards all
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 6: made out ahead of time, and after every dance we'd
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 6: leave them in groups under the letter that stood for
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 6: their name, so that they could be readily found by
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 6: their next partners. Jimmy McBride, for example, would stand patiently
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 6: under m until he was claimed. At least he to
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 6: have stood patiently, but he kept wandering off and getting
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 6: mixed with the r's and s's and all sorts of letters.
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 5: I found him a very difficult guest. He was sulky because.
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 6: He had only three dances with me. He said he
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 6: was bashful about dancing with girls he didn't know. The
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 6: next morning we had a glee club concert, and who
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 6: do you think wrote the funny new song.
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 5: Composed for the occasion. It's the truth she did.
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 6: Oh, I tell you, Daddy, your little foundling is getting
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 6: to be quite a prominent person. Anyway, our gay two
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 6: days were great fun, and I think the men enjoyed it.
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 6: Some of them were awfully perturbed at first at the
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 6: prospect of facing one thousand girls, but they got acclimated
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 6: very quickly. Our two Princeton men had a beautiful time,
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 6: at least they politely said they had. And they've invited
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 6: us to their dance next spring. We've accepted, so please
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 6: don't object, daddy. Dear, Julia and Sally and I all
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 6: had new dresses.
• 2:28:55
  Speaker 5: Do you want to hear about them?
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 6: Julia's was cream satin and golden broidery, and she wore
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 6: purple orchids. It was a dream and came from Paris
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 6: and cost a million dollars. Sallie's was pale blue, trimmed
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 6: with Persian embroidery and went beautifully with red hair. It
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 6: didn't cost quite a million, but was just as effective
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 6: as Julia's. Mine was pale pink crape machine, trimmed with
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 6: ecru lace and rose satin. And I carried crimson roses
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 6: with Jimmy McBride's scent, sally having told him what color
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 6: to get, and we all had satin silk lippers and
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 6: silk stockings and chiffon scarfs to match. You must be
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 6: deeply impressed by these millinery details. One can't help thinking, Daddy,
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 6: what a colorless life a man is forced to lead
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 6: when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 6: embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words.
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 6: Whereas a woman, whether she is interested in babies or microbes,
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 6: or husbands, or poetry, or servants or parallelograms or gardens
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 6: or plato or bridge, is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 6: It's the one touch of nature that makes the whole world.
• 2:30:02
  Speaker 6: Kin that isn't original. I got it out of one
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 6: of Shakespeare's plays. However, to resume, do you want me
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 6: to tell you a secret that I've lately discovered?
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 5: And will you promise not to think me vain? Then listen.
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 6: I'm pretty. I am really, I'd be an awful idiot
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 6: not to know it. With three looking glasses in the room,
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 6: A friend p s. This is one of those wicked
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 6: anonymous letters you read about in novels. Twentieth December, Dear
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 6: Daddy Longlegs, I've just a moment because I must attend
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 6: two classes, pack a trunk and a suit case, and
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 6: catch the four o'clock train. But I couldn't go without
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 6: sending a word to let you know how much I
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 6: appreciate my Christmas box. I love the furs and the
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 6: necklace and the Liberty scarf, and the gloves and handkerchiefs
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 6: and books and purse, and most of all, I love you.
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 6: But Daddy, you have no business to spoil me this way.
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 6: I'm only human, and a girl at that. How can
• 2:31:02
  Speaker 6: I keep my mind sternly fixed on a studious career
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 6: when you deflect me with such worldly frivilties. I have
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 6: strong suspicions now as to which one of the John
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 6: Greer trustees used to give the Christmas tree in the
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 6: Sunday ice Cream. He was nameless, but by his works
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 6: I know him. You deserve to be happy for all
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 6: the good things you do. Good Bye, and a very
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 6: merry Christmas, Yours always, Judy P. S. I am sending
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 6: a slight token too. Do you think you would like
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 6: her if you knew her? Eleventh January. I meant to
• 2:31:35
  Speaker 6: write to you from the city, Daddy, But New York
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 6: is an engrossing place. I had an interesting and illuminating time.
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 6: But I'm glad I don't belong to such a family.
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 6: I should truly rather have the John Greer Home for
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 6: a background. Whatever the drawbacks of my bringing up, there
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 6: was at least no pretense about it. I know now
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 6: what people mean when they say they are weighed down
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 6: by things. The material atmosphere of that house was crushing.
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 6: I didn't draw a deep breath until I was on
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 6: an express train coming back. All the furniture was carved
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 6: and upholstered and gorgeous. The people I met were beautifully
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 6: dressed and low voiced and well bred. But it's the truth, Daddy.
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 6: I never heard one word of real talk from the
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 6: time we arrived until we left. I don't think an
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 6: idea ever entered the front door. Missus Pendleton never thinks
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 6: of anything but jewels and dressmakers and social engagements. She
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 6: did seem a different kind of mother from missus mc bride.
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 6: If I ever marry and have a family, I'm going
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 6: to make them as exactly like the mc bride's as
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 6: I can not. For all the money in the world
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 6: would I ever let any children of mine develop into Pendleton's.
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 6: Maybe it isn't polite to criticize people you've been visiting.
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 6: If it isn't, please excuse this is very confidential between
• 2:32:51
  Speaker 6: you and me. I only saw Master Jervy once when
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 6: he called at tea time, and then I didn't really
• 2:32:58
  Speaker 6: have a chance to speak to him alone. It was
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 6: really disappointing after our nice time last summer. I don't
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 6: think he cares much for his relatives, and I am
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 6: sure they don't care much for him. Julia's mother says
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 6: he's unbalanced. He's a socialist, except thank Heavens, he doesn't
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 6: let his hair grow and wear red ties. She can't
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 6: imagine where he picked up his queer ideas the family
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 6: have been Church of England for generations. He throws away
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 6: his money on every sort of crazy reform instead of
• 2:33:27
  Speaker 6: spending it on such sensible things as yachts and automobiles
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 6: and polo ponies. He does buy candy with it, though
• 2:33:34
  Speaker 6: he sent Julia and me each a box for Christmas.
• 2:33:37
  Speaker 6: You know, I think I'll be a socialist too. You
• 2:33:40
  Speaker 6: wouldn't mind, would you, Daddy. They're quite different from anarchists.
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 6: They don't believe in blowing people up. Probably I am
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 6: one by rights, I belong to the proletariat. I haven't
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 6: determined yet just which kind I'm going to be. I
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 6: will look into the subject over Sunday and declare my
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 6: principles in my next I've seen loads theater and hotels
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 6: and beautiful houses. My mind is a confused jungle of
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 6: onyx and gilding and mosaic floors and palms. I'm still
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 6: pretty breathless, but I am glad to get back to college.
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 6: In my books, I believe that I really am a student.
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 6: This atmosphere of academic calm I find more bracing than
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 6: New York. College is a very satisfying sort of life.
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 6: The books and study and regular classes keep you alive mentally,
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 6: and then when your mind gets tired, you have the
• 2:34:28
  Speaker 6: gymnasium in outdoor athletics, and always plenty of congenial friends
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 6: who are thinking about the same things. You are. We
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 6: spend a whole evening in nothing but talk talk, talk talk,
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 6: and go to bed with very uplifted feeling, as though
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 6: we had settled permanently some pressing world problems and filling
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 6: in every crevice. There is always such a lot of nonsense,
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 6: just silly jokes about the little things that come up,
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 6: but very satisfying. We do appreciate our own witticisms. It
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 6: isn't the great, big pleasures that count the most, it's
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 6: making a great deal out of the little ones. I've
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 6: discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 6: to live in the now, not to be forever regretting
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 6: the past or anticipating the future, but to get the
• 2:35:11
  Speaker 6: most you can out of this very instant. It's like farming.
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 6: You could have extensive farming and intensive farming. Well, I'm
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 6: going to have intensive living after this. I'm going to
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 6: enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 6: it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live. They
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 6: just race. They are trying to reach some goal far
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 6: away on the horizon, and in the heat of the
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 6: going they get so breathless and panting that they lose
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 6: all sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through,
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 6: and then the first thing they know they are old
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 6: and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 6: they've reached the goal or not. I've decided to sit
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 6: down by the way and pile up a lot of
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 6: little happinesses, even if I never become a great author.
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 6: Did you ever know such a philosopher as I am
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 6: developing into?
• 2:36:02
  Speaker 5: Yours? Ever? Judy p s.
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 6: It's raining cats and dogs tonight. Two puppies and a
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 6: kitten have just landed on the window sill. Dear comrade, hooray,
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 6: I am a fabian. That's a socialist who's willing to wait.
• 2:36:18
  Speaker 5: We don't want a.
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 6: Social revolution to come tomorrow morning. It would be too upsetting.
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 6: We wanted to come very gradually in the distant future,
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 6: when we shall all be prepared and able to sustain
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 6: the shock. In the meantime, we must be getting ready
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 6: by instituting industrial, educational and orphan asylum reforms. Yours with
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 6: fraternal love, Judy, Monday, third hour, eleventh February.
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 5: Dear D L. L.
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 6: Don't be insulted because this is so short. It isn't
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 6: a letter. It's just a line to say that I'm
• 2:36:51
  Speaker 6: going to write a letter pretty soon when examinations are over.
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 6: It is not only necessary that I pass, but pass well.
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 6: I have a scholarship to lie up to yours, studying
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 6: hard j a. Fifth March, Dear Daddy long Legs. President
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 6: Cuehler made a speech this evening about the modern generation
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 6: being flippant and superficial. He says that we are losing
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 6: the old ideals of earnest endeavor and true scholarship. And
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 6: particularly is this falling off noticeable in our disrespectful attitude
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 6: toward organized authority. We no longer pay a seemly deference
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 6: to our superiors. I came away from chapel very sober.
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 5: Am I too familiar? Daddy?
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 6: Ought I to treat you with more dignity and aloofness? Yes,
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 6: I'm sure I ought. I'll begin again, my dear mister Smith,
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 6: you will be pleased to hear that I passed successfully
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 6: my mid year examinations and am now commencing work in
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 6: the new semester. I am leaving chemistry, having completed the
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 6: course in qualitative analysis, and am entering upon the study
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 6: of biology. I approach this subject with some hesitation, as
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 6: I understand the we dissect angleworms and frogs. An extremely
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 6: interesting and valuable lecture was given in the Chapel last
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 6: week upon Roman remains in Southern France. I have never
• 2:38:10
  Speaker 6: listened to a more illuminating exposition of the subject. We
• 2:38:14
  Speaker 6: are reading Wordsworth's tintern Abbe in connection with our course
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 6: in English literature. Whateness squisite work it is, and how
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 6: adequately it embodies his conceptions of pantheism. The Romantic movement
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 6: of the early part of the last century, exemplified in
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 6: the works of such poets as Shelley Byron, Keats and Wordsworth,
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 6: appeals to me very much more than the classical period
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 6: that preceded it. Speaking of poetry, have you ever read
• 2:38:39
  Speaker 6: that charming little thing of Tennyson's called Locksley Hall. I
• 2:38:43
  Speaker 6: am attending gymnasium very regularly.
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 5: Of late.
• 2:38:46
  Speaker 6: A proctor system has been devised, and failure to comply
• 2:38:50
  Speaker 6: with the rules causes a great deal of inconvenience. The
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 6: gymnasium is equipped with a very beautiful swimming tank of
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 6: cement and marble, the gift of a former graduate. My
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 6: room mate, Miss mc bride, has given me her bathing suit.
• 2:39:04
  Speaker 6: It shrank so that she can no longer wear it,
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 6: and I am about to begin swimming lessons. We had
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 6: delicious pink ice cream for dessert last night. Only vegetable
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 6: dyes are used in coloring the food. The college is
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 6: very much opposed, both from esthetic and hygienic motives, to
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 6: the use of anoline dyes. The weather of late has
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 6: been ideal, bright sunshine and clouds, interspersed with a few
• 2:39:26
  Speaker 6: welcome snowstorms. I and my companions have enjoyed our walks
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 6: to and from classes, particularly from trusting my dear mister Smith, this,
• 2:39:36
  Speaker 6: this will find you in your usual good health. I
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 6: remained most cordially yours, Jerusha Abbot, twenty fourth April. Dear Daddy,
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 6: spring has come again. You should see how lovely the
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 6: campus is. I think you might come and look at
• 2:39:52
  Speaker 6: it for yourself. Master Jerviy dropped in again last Friday,
• 2:39:56
  Speaker 6: but he chose a most unpropitious time for Sallie and
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 6: Julia and I were just running to catch a train.
• 2:40:02
  Speaker 5: And where do you think we were going?
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 6: To Princeton to attend to dance in a ballgame, if
• 2:40:07
  Speaker 6: you please. I didn't ask you if I might go,
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 6: because I had a feeling that your secretary would say no,
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 6: but it was entirely regular. We had a leave of
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 6: absence from college and Missus mc bride chaperoned us. We
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 6: had a charming time, but I shall have to admit
• 2:40:22
  Speaker 6: details they are too many and complicated. Saturday, up before dawn,
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 6: the night watchman called us, six of us and we
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 6: made coffee in a chafing dish. You never saw so
• 2:40:34
  Speaker 6: many grounds, and walked two miles to the top of
• 2:40:37
  Speaker 6: one tree hill to see the sunrise. We had to
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 6: scramble up the last slope. The sun almost beat us.
• 2:40:44
  Speaker 6: And perhaps you think we didn't bring back appetites to breakfast.
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 6: Dear me, Daddy, I seem to have a very ejaculatory
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 6: style today. This page is peppered with exclamations. I meant
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 6: to have written a lot about the budding trees and
• 2:40:58
  Speaker 6: the new cinder path in the Athletic Fiel, and the
• 2:41:00
  Speaker 6: awful lesson we have in biology for tomorrow, and the
• 2:41:04
  Speaker 6: new canoes on the lake, and Catherine Prentice who has pneumonia,
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 6: and Prexy's Angora kitten that strayed from home and has
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 6: been boarding in Ferguson Hall for two weeks. Until a
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 6: chambermaid reported it, and about my three new dresses, white
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 6: and pink and blue polka dots with a hat to match.
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 6: But I am too sleepy. I'm always making this as
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 6: an excuse, am I not? But a girl's college is
• 2:41:25
  Speaker 6: a busy place, and we do get tired by the
• 2:41:28
  Speaker 6: end of the day, particularly when the day begins at dawn. Affectionately,
• 2:41:33
  Speaker 6: Judy fifteenth may dear.
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 5: Daddy long legs.
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 6: Is it good manners when you get into a car
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 6: just to stare straight ahead and not see anybody else.
• 2:41:44
  Speaker 6: A very beautiful lady in a very beautiful velvet dress
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 6: got into the car today and without the slightest expression,
• 2:41:51
  Speaker 6: sat for fifteen minutes and looked at a sign of
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 6: advertising suspenders. It doesn't seem polite to ignore everybody else
• 2:41:58
  Speaker 6: as though you were the only important person present. Anyway,
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 6: you miss a lot. While she was absorbing that silly sign,
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 6: I was studying a whole car full of interesting human beings.
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 6: The accompanying illustration is hereby reproduced for the first time.
• 2:42:13
  Speaker 6: It looks like a spider on the end of a string,
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 6: but it isn't at all. It's picture of me learning
• 2:42:19
  Speaker 6: to swim in the tank in the gymnasium. The instructor
• 2:42:22
  Speaker 6: hooks a rope into a ring in the back of
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 6: my belt and runs it through a.
• 2:42:26
  Speaker 5: Pulley in the ceiling.
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 6: It would be a beautiful system if one had perfect
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 6: confidence in the probity of one's instructor. I'm always afraid, though,
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 6: that she will let the rope get slack, so I
• 2:42:36
  Speaker 6: keep one anxious eye on her and swim with the other.
• 2:42:39
  Speaker 6: And with this divided interest, I do not make the
• 2:42:42
  Speaker 6: progress that I otherwise might. Very miscellaneous weather we've been
• 2:42:46
  Speaker 6: having of late. It was raining when I commenced, and
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 6: now the sun is shining. Sally and I are going
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 6: out to play tennis, thereby gaining exemption from Jim a
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 6: week later. I should have finished this letter long long ago,
• 2:43:00
  Speaker 6: but I didn't. You don't mind, do you, Daddy, if
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 6: I'm not very regular. I really do love to write
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 6: to you. It gives me such a respectable feeling of
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 6: having some family. Would you like me to tell you something?
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 6: You are not the only man to whom I write letters.
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 6: There are two others. I have been receiving beautiful long
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 6: letters this winter from Master Jerviy, with typewritten envelopes so
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 6: Julia won't recognize the writing. Did you ever hear anything
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 6: so shocking? And every week or so, a very scrawly epistle,
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 6: usually on yellow tablet paper, arrives from Princeton, all of
• 2:43:35
  Speaker 6: which I answer with business like promptness. So you see
• 2:43:38
  Speaker 6: I am not so very different from other girls. I
• 2:43:41
  Speaker 6: get letters too. Did I tell you that I have
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 6: been elected a member of the Senior Dramatic Club, very
• 2:43:47
  Speaker 6: research organization, only seventy five members out of one thousand.
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 6: Do you think, as a consistent socialist that I ought
• 2:43:55
  Speaker 6: to be long? What do you suppose is at present.
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 5: Engaging my attention? Sociology?
• 2:44:01
  Speaker 6: I am writing figuere vous, a paper on the care
• 2:44:05
  Speaker 6: of dependent children. The professor shuffled up his subjects and
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 6: dealt them out promiscuously, and that fell to me, saidrol
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 6: sain Neapa. There goes the gong for dinner. I'll post
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 6: this as I passed the box affectionately. Jay fourth June,
• 2:44:23
  Speaker 6: Dear Daddy, Very busy time. Commencement in ten days, examinations tomorrow,
• 2:44:29
  Speaker 6: lots of studying, lots of packing, and the outdoor world
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 6: so lovely that it hurts you to stay inside. But
• 2:44:36
  Speaker 6: never mind, vacation's coming. Julia is going abroad this summer,
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 6: and it makes the fourth time, no doubt about it, Daddy,
• 2:44:44
  Speaker 6: goods are not distributed evenly. Sally, as usual goes to
• 2:44:49
  Speaker 6: the Adirondacks.
• 2:44:50
  Speaker 5: And what do you think I'm going to do?
• 2:44:52
  Speaker 6: You may have three guesses, lock Willow wrong, the Adirondacks
• 2:44:57
  Speaker 6: with Sally wrong. I'll never attempt that again. I was
• 2:45:01
  Speaker 6: discouraged last year. Can't you guess anything else? You're not
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 6: very inventive. I'll tell you, daddy, if you'll promise not
• 2:45:09
  Speaker 6: to make a lot of objections. I warn your secretary
• 2:45:13
  Speaker 6: in advance that my mind is made up. I am
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 6: going to spend this summer at the sea side with
• 2:45:19
  Speaker 6: a missus Charles Patterson and Tudor, her daughter, who is
• 2:45:22
  Speaker 6: to enter college in the autumn. I met her through
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 6: the mc bride's and she is a very charming woman.
• 2:45:28
  Speaker 6: I am to give lessons in English and Latin to
• 2:45:30
  Speaker 6: the younger daughter too, but I shall have a little
• 2:45:32
  Speaker 6: time to myself, and I shall be earning fifty dollars
• 2:45:35
  Speaker 6: a month. Doesn't that impress you as a perfectly exorbitant amount?
• 2:45:40
  Speaker 6: She offered it. I should have blushed to ask for
• 2:45:43
  Speaker 6: more than twenty five. I finish at Magnolia. That's where
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 6: she lives the first of September, and she'll probably spend
• 2:45:51
  Speaker 6: the remaining three weeks at Lock Willow. I should like
• 2:45:54
  Speaker 6: to see the semples again and all the friendly animals.
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 5: How does my program strike.
• 2:45:58
  Speaker 3: You, Daddy?
• 2:45:59
  Speaker 6: I am getting quite independent. You see. You have put
• 2:46:02
  Speaker 6: me on my feet, and I think I can almost
• 2:46:04
  Speaker 6: walk alone by now. Princeton commencement in our examinations exactly coincide,
• 2:46:10
  Speaker 6: which is an awful blow. Sally and I did so
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 6: want to get away in time for it, but of
• 2:46:15
  Speaker 6: course that is utterly impossible. Goodbye, Daddy. Have a nice
• 2:46:20
  Speaker 6: summer and come back in the autumn, rested and ready
• 2:46:23
  Speaker 6: for another year of work. That's what you ought to
• 2:46:25
  Speaker 6: be writing to me. I haven't any idea what you
• 2:46:28
  Speaker 6: do in the summer or how you amuse yourself. I
• 2:46:31
  Speaker 6: can't visualize your surroundings. Do you play golf or hunt,
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 6: or ride horseback or just sit in the sun and meditate? Anyway,
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 6: whatever it is, have a good time, and don't forget Judy.
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 5: Tenth June.
• 2:46:46
  Speaker 6: Dear Daddy, this is the hardest letter I ever wrote,
• 2:46:50
  Speaker 6: but I have decided what I must do, and there
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 6: isn't going to be any turning back. It is very
• 2:46:56
  Speaker 6: sweet and generous and dear of you to wish to
• 2:46:58
  Speaker 6: send me to Europe this summer. For the moment I
• 2:47:01
  Speaker 6: was intoxicated by the idea, but sober second thoughts said no,
• 2:47:06
  Speaker 6: it would be rather illogical of me to refuse to
• 2:47:09
  Speaker 6: take your money for college and then use it instead
• 2:47:12
  Speaker 6: just for amusement. You mustn't get used to too many luxuries.
• 2:47:16
  Speaker 6: One doesn't miss what one has never had. But it's
• 2:47:19
  Speaker 6: awfully hard going without things after one is commenced thinking
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 6: they are his hers. English language needs another pronoun by
• 2:47:27
  Speaker 6: natural right. Living with Sally and Julia is an awful
• 2:47:31
  Speaker 6: strain on my stoical philosophy. They have both had things
• 2:47:34
  Speaker 6: from the time they were babies. They accept happiness as
• 2:47:37
  Speaker 6: a matter of course. The world, they think, owes them
• 2:47:40
  Speaker 6: everything they want. Maybe the world does in any case,
• 2:47:45
  Speaker 6: it seems to acknowledge the debt and pay up. But
• 2:47:48
  Speaker 6: as for me, it owes me nothing, and distinctly told
• 2:47:51
  Speaker 6: me so in the beginning. I have no right to
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 6: borrow on credit, for there will come a time when
• 2:47:56
  Speaker 6: the world will repudiate my claim I seem to be
• 2:48:00
  Speaker 6: foundering in a sea of metaphor, but I hope you
• 2:48:02
  Speaker 6: grasped my meaning. Anyway, I have a very strong feeling
• 2:48:06
  Speaker 6: that the only honest thing for me to do is
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 6: to teach this summer and begin to support myself Magnolia.
• 2:48:13
  Speaker 6: Four days later, i'd got just that much written. When
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 6: what do you think happened? The maid arrived with Master
• 2:48:20
  Speaker 6: Jervy's card. He is going abroad too this summer, not
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 6: with Julia and her family, but entirely by himself. I
• 2:48:27
  Speaker 6: told him that you had invited me to go with
• 2:48:29
  Speaker 6: the lady who is chaperoning a party of girls. He
• 2:48:32
  Speaker 6: knows about you, Daddy, that is, he knows that my
• 2:48:35
  Speaker 6: father and mother are dead, and that a kind gentleman
• 2:48:38
  Speaker 6: is sending me to college. I simply didn't have the
• 2:48:40
  Speaker 6: courage to tell him about the John Greerholm and all
• 2:48:42
  Speaker 6: the rest. He thinks that you are my guardian and
• 2:48:46
  Speaker 6: a perfectly legitimate old family friend. I have never told
• 2:48:49
  Speaker 6: him that I didn't know you. That would seem too queer. Anyway,
• 2:48:53
  Speaker 6: he insisted on my going to Europe. He said that
• 2:48:56
  Speaker 6: it was a necessary part of my education and that
• 2:48:58
  Speaker 6: I mustn't think of refuse using. Also that he would
• 2:49:01
  Speaker 6: be in Paris at the same time, and that we
• 2:49:03
  Speaker 6: would run away from the chaperone occasionally and have dinner
• 2:49:06
  Speaker 6: together at nice, funny foreign restaurants. Well, Daddy, it did
• 2:49:11
  Speaker 6: appeal to me. I almost weakened. If he hadn't been
• 2:49:15
  Speaker 6: so dictatorial, maybe I should have entirely weakened. I can
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 6: be enticed step by step, but I won't be forced.
• 2:49:23
  Speaker 6: He said I was a silly, foolish, irrational, quixotic, idiotic,
• 2:49:27
  Speaker 6: stubborn child. Those are a few of his abusive adjectives.
• 2:49:31
  Speaker 6: The rest escaped me and that I didn't know what
• 2:49:33
  Speaker 6: was good for me. I ought to let older people judge.
• 2:49:37
  Speaker 6: We almost quarreled, I am not sure, but that we
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 6: entirely did. In any case, I packed my trunk fast
• 2:49:44
  Speaker 6: and came up here. I thought I'd better see my
• 2:49:47
  Speaker 6: bridges and flames behind me before I finished writing to you.
• 2:49:50
  Speaker 6: They are entirely reduced to ashes now Here. I am
• 2:49:54
  Speaker 6: at cliff Top, the name of missus Patterson's cottage, with
• 2:49:58
  Speaker 6: my trunk unpacked, and Florence a little one already struggling
• 2:50:02
  Speaker 6: with first to clension nouns, and it bids fair to
• 2:50:05
  Speaker 6: be a struggle. She is a most uncommonly spoiled child.
• 2:50:09
  Speaker 6: I shall have to teach her first how to study.
• 2:50:12
  Speaker 6: She has never in her life concentrated on anything more
• 2:50:14
  Speaker 6: difficult than ice cream, soda water. We use a quiet
• 2:50:18
  Speaker 6: corner of the cliffs for a schoolroom. Missus Patterson wishes
• 2:50:22
  Speaker 6: me to keep them out of doors, And I will
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 6: say that I find it difficult to concentrate with the
• 2:50:26
  Speaker 6: blue sea before me, and ship's a sailing by, and
• 2:50:30
  Speaker 6: when I think I might be on one sailing off
• 2:50:32
  Speaker 6: to foreign lands. But I won't let myself think of
• 2:50:36
  Speaker 6: anything but Latin grammar, the prepositions a or ab absqui,
• 2:50:41
  Speaker 6: corum whom da e or x prey pro sine tenus
• 2:50:46
  Speaker 6: in soubtera soub and super govern the ablative. So you see, daddy,
• 2:50:51
  Speaker 6: I am already plunged into work with my eyes persistently
• 2:50:55
  Speaker 6: set against temptation. Don't be cross with me, please, and
• 2:50:59
  Speaker 6: don't think that I do not appreciate your kindness, for I.
• 2:51:02
  Speaker 5: Do always always.
• 2:51:04
  Speaker 6: The only way I can ever repay you is by
• 2:51:07
  Speaker 6: turning out a very useful citizen. Are women citizens, I
• 2:51:11
  Speaker 6: don't suppose they are anyway, A very useful person, and
• 2:51:15
  Speaker 6: when you look at me, you can say I gave
• 2:51:18
  Speaker 6: that very useful person to the world. That sounds well,
• 2:51:22
  Speaker 6: doesn't it, Daddy? But I don't wish to mislead you.
• 2:51:25
  Speaker 6: The feeling often comes over me that I am not
• 2:51:27
  Speaker 6: at all remarkable. It is fun to plan a career,
• 2:51:30
  Speaker 6: but in all probability I shan't turn out a bit
• 2:51:33
  Speaker 6: different from any other ordinary person. I may end by
• 2:51:36
  Speaker 6: marrying an undertaker and being an inspiration to him in
• 2:51:39
  Speaker 6: his work. Yours ever, Judy, nineteenth August. Dear Daddy, long legs.
• 2:51:47
  Speaker 6: My window looks out on the loveliest landscape, oceanscape, rather
• 2:51:51
  Speaker 6: nothing but water and rocks.
• 2:51:54
  Speaker 5: The summer goes.
• 2:51:56
  Speaker 6: I spend the morning with Latin and English and algebra,
• 2:51:58
  Speaker 6: and my two stupid girls. I don't know how Marian
• 2:52:02
  Speaker 6: is ever going to get into college or stay in
• 2:52:04
  Speaker 6: if she does get there. As for Florence, she is hopeless.
• 2:52:08
  Speaker 6: But oh, such a little beauty. I don't suppose it
• 2:52:12
  Speaker 6: matters in the least whether they are stupid or not,
• 2:52:14
  Speaker 6: as long as they are pretty. One can't help thinking, though,
• 2:52:17
  Speaker 6: how their conversation will bore their husbands. Unless they are
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 6: fortunate enough to obtain stupid husbands. I suppose that's quite possible.
• 2:52:25
  Speaker 6: The world seems filled with stupid men. I've met a
• 2:52:28
  Speaker 6: number this summer. In the afternoon, we take a walk
• 2:52:32
  Speaker 6: on the cliffs, or swim. If the tide is right,
• 2:52:35
  Speaker 6: I can swim in salt water with the utmost ease.
• 2:52:38
  Speaker 6: You see, my education is already being put to use.
• 2:52:42
  Speaker 6: A letter comes from mister Jervis Pendleton in Paris, rather
• 2:52:45
  Speaker 6: a short, concise letter. I'm not quite forgiven yet for
• 2:52:49
  Speaker 6: refusing to follow his advice. However, if he gets back
• 2:52:53
  Speaker 6: in time, he will see me for a few days
• 2:52:55
  Speaker 6: at lock Willow before college opens. And if I am
• 2:52:57
  Speaker 6: very nice and sweet and docile i share, I am
• 2:53:00
  Speaker 6: led to infer be received into favor again. Also a
• 2:53:05
  Speaker 6: letter from Sallie. She wants me to come to their
• 2:53:07
  Speaker 6: camp for two weeks in September. Must I ask your permission?
• 2:53:11
  Speaker 6: Or haven't I yet arrived at the place where I
• 2:53:13
  Speaker 6: can do as I please?
• 2:53:15
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 2:53:15
  Speaker 6: I am sure I have. I'm a senior, you know,
• 2:53:18
  Speaker 6: having worked all summer, I feel like taking a little
• 2:53:21
  Speaker 6: healthful recreation. I want to see the Adirondacks. I want
• 2:53:25
  Speaker 6: to see Sallie. I want to see Sallie's brother. He's
• 2:53:28
  Speaker 6: going to teach me to canoe, and we come to
• 2:53:31
  Speaker 6: my chief motive, which is mean. I want Master Jervy
• 2:53:34
  Speaker 6: to arrive at Lock Willow and find me not there.
• 2:53:38
  Speaker 6: I must show him that he can't dictate to me.
• 2:53:41
  Speaker 6: No one can dictate to me but you, Daddy, and
• 2:53:44
  Speaker 6: you can't always. I'm off to the woods, Judy Camp
• 2:53:49
  Speaker 6: McBride sixth September. Dear Daddy, your letter didn't come in time.
• 2:53:54
  Speaker 6: I am pleased to say, if you wish your instructions
• 2:53:57
  Speaker 6: to be obeyed, you must have your secretary to transmit
• 2:54:00
  Speaker 6: them in less than two weeks. As you observe, I
• 2:54:03
  Speaker 6: am here and have been for five days. The woods
• 2:54:07
  Speaker 6: are fine, and so is the camp, and so is
• 2:54:09
  Speaker 6: the weather, and so are the McBride's, and so is
• 2:54:12
  Speaker 6: the whole world. I'm very happy there's Jimmy calling for
• 2:54:16
  Speaker 6: me to come canoeing.
• 2:54:18
  Speaker 5: Goodbye.
• 2:54:19
  Speaker 6: Sorry to have disobeyed, but why are you so persistent
• 2:54:22
  Speaker 6: about not wanting me to play a little When I've
• 2:54:24
  Speaker 6: worked all the summer. I deserve two weeks. You are
• 2:54:27
  Speaker 6: awfully dog and the mangerish. However, I love you still, Daddy,
• 2:54:31
  Speaker 6: in spite of all your faults, Judy.
• 2:54:35
  Speaker 3: End of Part seven, Part eight, third October.
• 2:54:41
  Speaker 4: Dear Daddy long Legs back at college and a senior
• 2:54:44
  Speaker 4: also editor of the monthly. Doesn't seem possible, does it?
• 2:54:47
  Speaker 4: That so sophisticated a person just four years ago was
• 2:54:50
  Speaker 4: an inmate of the John Greer Home. We do arrive
• 2:54:54
  Speaker 4: fast in America? What do you think of this? A
• 2:54:57
  Speaker 4: note from Master Jervey directed to Lock Willow and forwarded here.
• 2:55:01
  Speaker 4: He's sorry, but he finds that he can't get up
• 2:55:03
  Speaker 4: there this autumn. He's accepted an invitation to go yachting
• 2:55:06
  Speaker 4: with some friends.
• 2:55:07
  Speaker 2: Hopes.
• 2:55:07
  Speaker 4: I've had a nice summer and I'm enjoying the country.
• 2:55:10
  Speaker 4: And he knew all the time that I was with
• 2:55:12
  Speaker 4: the mc bride's for Julia told him, so, you men
• 2:55:15
  Speaker 4: ought to leave intrigued to women. You haven't a light
• 2:55:17
  Speaker 4: enough touch. Julia has a trunk full of the most
• 2:55:20
  Speaker 4: ravishing new clothes, an evening gown of rainbow liberty crape
• 2:55:24
  Speaker 4: that would be fitting Raymond for the Angels in Paradise.
• 2:55:27
  Speaker 4: And I thought that my own clothes this year were unprecedentally.
• 2:55:31
  Speaker 4: Is there such a word beautiful? I copied missus Patterson's
• 2:55:34
  Speaker 4: wardrobe with the aid of a cheap dressmaker, and though
• 2:55:37
  Speaker 4: the gowns didn't turn out quite the twins of the originals,
• 2:55:39
  Speaker 4: I was entirely happy until Julia unpacked. But now I
• 2:55:44
  Speaker 4: live to see Paris. Dear Daddy, aren't you glad you're
• 2:55:47
  Speaker 4: not a girl? I suppose you think that the fuss
• 2:55:49
  Speaker 4: we make over clothes is too absolutely silly. It is
• 2:55:53
  Speaker 4: no doubt about it, but it's entirely your fault. Did
• 2:55:56
  Speaker 4: you ever hear about the learned hair professor who regarded
• 2:56:00
  Speaker 4: unnecessary adornment with contempt and favored sensible, utilitarian clothes for women.
• 2:56:05
  Speaker 4: His wife, who was an obliging creature, adopted dress reform.
• 2:56:08
  Speaker 4: And what do you think he did? He eloped with
• 2:56:10
  Speaker 4: a chorus girl yours ever? Judy p s The chambermaid
• 2:56:15
  Speaker 4: nar Corridor wears blue checked Gingham aprons. I'm going to
• 2:56:18
  Speaker 4: get her some brown ones instead and sink the blue
• 2:56:20
  Speaker 4: ones in the bottom of the lake. I have a
• 2:56:22
  Speaker 4: reminiscent chill every time I look at them. Seventeenth November,
• 2:56:26
  Speaker 4: Dear Daddy, long Legs, Such a blight has fallen over
• 2:56:30
  Speaker 4: my literary career. I don't know whether to tell you
• 2:56:32
  Speaker 4: or not, but I would like some sympathy, silent sympathy.
• 2:56:35
  Speaker 4: Please don't reopen the wound by referring to it in
• 2:56:38
  Speaker 4: your next letter. I've been writing a book all last
• 2:56:41
  Speaker 4: winter in the evenings and all the summer when I
• 2:56:43
  Speaker 4: wasn't teaching Latin to my two stupid children. I just
• 2:56:46
  Speaker 4: finished it before college opened and sent it to a publisher.
• 2:56:49
  Speaker 4: He kept it two months, and I was certain he
• 2:56:51
  Speaker 4: was going to take it. But yesterday morning an express
• 2:56:54
  Speaker 4: parcel came thirty cents due, and there it was back again,
• 2:56:58
  Speaker 4: with a letter from the publisher. A very nice, fatherly letter,
• 2:57:02
  Speaker 4: but frank. He said he saw from the address that
• 2:57:04
  Speaker 4: I was still at college, and if I would accept
• 2:57:06
  Speaker 4: some advice, he would suggest that I put all of
• 2:57:08
  Speaker 4: my energy into my lessons and wait until I graduated
• 2:57:11
  Speaker 4: before beginning to write. He enclosed his reader's opinion here
• 2:57:14
  Speaker 4: it is plot, highly improbable, characterization, exaggerated, conversation, unnatural, a
• 2:57:21
  Speaker 4: good deal of humor, but not always in the best
• 2:57:23
  Speaker 4: of taste. Tell her to keep on trying, and in
• 2:57:25
  Speaker 4: time she may produce a real book. Not on the
• 2:57:28
  Speaker 4: whole flattering, is it? Daddy? And I thought I was
• 2:57:31
  Speaker 4: making a notable addition to American literature. I did, truly.
• 2:57:35
  Speaker 4: I was planning to surprise you by writing a great
• 2:57:37
  Speaker 4: novel before I graduated. I collected the material for it
• 2:57:40
  Speaker 4: while I was at Julia's last Christmas. But I dare
• 2:57:43
  Speaker 4: say the editor is right. Probably two weeks was not
• 2:57:45
  Speaker 4: enough in which to observe the manners and customs of
• 2:57:47
  Speaker 4: a great city. I took it walking with me yesterday afternoon,
• 2:57:52
  Speaker 4: and when I came to the gas house, I went
• 2:57:53
  Speaker 4: in and asked the engineer if I might borrow his furnace.
• 2:57:56
  Speaker 4: He politely opened the door, and with my own hands,
• 2:57:59
  Speaker 4: I chucked it in. I felt as though I had
• 2:58:00
  Speaker 4: cremated my only child. I went to bed last night
• 2:58:04
  Speaker 4: utterly dejected. I thought I was never going to amount
• 2:58:06
  Speaker 4: to anything, and that you had thrown away your money
• 2:58:09
  Speaker 4: for nothing. But what do you think? I woke up
• 2:58:11
  Speaker 4: this morning with a beautiful new plot in my head,
• 2:58:14
  Speaker 4: and I'd been going about all day planning my characters,
• 2:58:16
  Speaker 4: just as happy as I could be. No one can
• 2:58:18
  Speaker 4: ever accuse me of being a pessimist. If I had
• 2:58:21
  Speaker 4: a husband and twelve children swallowed by an earthquake one day,
• 2:58:23
  Speaker 4: i'd bob up smilingly the next morning, and commenced to
• 2:58:26
  Speaker 4: look for another set. Affectionately Judy fourteenth December, Dear Daddy
• 2:58:32
  Speaker 4: long Legs. I dreamed the funniest dream last night. I
• 2:58:35
  Speaker 4: thought I went into a bookstore and the clerk brought
• 2:58:38
  Speaker 4: me a new book named The Life and Letters of
• 2:58:40
  Speaker 4: Judy Abbot. I could see it perfectly, plainly red cloth binding,
• 2:58:44
  Speaker 4: with a picture of the John Greer Home on the cover,
• 2:58:47
  Speaker 4: and my portrait for a frontispiece, with very truly yours,
• 2:58:50
  Speaker 4: Judy Abbot written below. But just as I was turning
• 2:58:53
  Speaker 4: to the end to read the inscription on my tombstone,
• 2:58:56
  Speaker 4: I woke up. Was very annoying. I almost found out
• 2:58:59
  Speaker 4: whom I'm going to marry when I'm going to die.
• 2:59:02
  Speaker 4: Don't you think it would be interesting if you really
• 2:59:04
  Speaker 4: could read the story of your life written perfectly, truthfully
• 2:59:07
  Speaker 4: by an omniscient author, and suppose you could only read
• 2:59:10
  Speaker 4: it on this condition that you would never forget it,
• 2:59:13
  Speaker 4: but would have to go through life knowing ahead of
• 2:59:15
  Speaker 4: time exactly how everything you did would turn out, and
• 2:59:18
  Speaker 4: foreseeing to the exact hour the time when you would die.
• 2:59:22
  Speaker 4: How many people do you suppose would have the courage
• 2:59:24
  Speaker 4: to read it then, or how many could suppress their
• 2:59:27
  Speaker 4: curiosity sufficiently to escape from reading it, even at the
• 2:59:30
  Speaker 4: price of having to live without hope and without surprises.
• 2:59:33
  Speaker 4: Life is monotonous enough at best, you have to eat
• 2:59:36
  Speaker 4: and sleep about so often. But imagine how deadly monotonous
• 2:59:40
  Speaker 4: it would be if nothing unexpected could happen between meals. Mercy, Daddy,
• 2:59:44
  Speaker 4: there's a blot, But I'm on the third page and
• 2:59:46
  Speaker 4: I can't begin a new sheet. I'm going on with
• 2:59:49
  Speaker 4: biology again this year. Very interesting subject. We're studying the
• 2:59:52
  Speaker 4: alimentary system at present. You should see how sweet a
• 2:59:56
  Speaker 4: cross section of the duodenum of a cat is under
• 2:59:59
  Speaker 4: the microscope. Also, we've arrived at philosophy. Interesting but evanescent.
• 3:00:05
  Speaker 4: I prefer biology, where you can pin the subject under
• 3:00:08
  Speaker 4: discussion to a board. There's another and another. This pen
• 3:00:11
  Speaker 4: is weeping copiously, Please excuse its tears. Do you believe
• 3:00:15
  Speaker 4: in free will? I do unreservedly. I don't agree at
• 3:00:19
  Speaker 4: all with the philosophers who think that every action is
• 3:00:22
  Speaker 4: the absolute, inevitable and automatic resultant of an aggregation of
• 3:00:26
  Speaker 4: remote causes. That's the most immoral doctrine I ever heard.
• 3:00:30
  Speaker 4: Nobody would be to blame for anything. If a man
• 3:00:33
  Speaker 4: believed in fatalism, he would naturally just sit down and
• 3:00:36
  Speaker 4: say the Lord's will be done, and continue to sit
• 3:00:38
  Speaker 4: until he fell over dead. I believe absolutely in my
• 3:00:41
  Speaker 4: own free will and my own power to accomplish, and
• 3:00:44
  Speaker 4: that is the belief that moves mountains. You watch me
• 3:00:47
  Speaker 4: become a great author. I have four chapters of my
• 3:00:49
  Speaker 4: new book finished and five more drafted. This is a
• 3:00:53
  Speaker 4: very obtruse letter. There's your headache, daddy. I think we'll
• 3:00:56
  Speaker 4: stop now and make some fudge. I'm sorry I can't
• 3:00:58
  Speaker 4: send you a piece. It will be unus usually good
• 3:01:00
  Speaker 4: for we are going to make it with real cream
• 3:01:02
  Speaker 4: and three butter balls. Yours affectionately, Judy p s. We're
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 4: having fancy dancing and gymnasium class. You can see by
• 3:01:10
  Speaker 4: the accompanying picture how much we look like a real ballet.
• 3:01:12
  Speaker 4: The one at the end accomplishing a graceful pirouette is me,
• 3:01:17
  Speaker 4: I mean I twenty sixth December, My dear dear daddy,
• 3:01:22
  Speaker 4: haven't you any sense? Don't you know that you mustn't
• 3:01:24
  Speaker 4: give one girl seventeen Christmas presents? I'm a socialist, Please remember,
• 3:01:29
  Speaker 4: do you wish to turn me into a plutocrat. Think
• 3:01:32
  Speaker 4: how embarrassing it would be if we should ever quarrel.
• 3:01:34
  Speaker 4: I should have to engage a moving van to return
• 3:01:36
  Speaker 4: your gifts. I'm sorry that the necktie ascent was so wobbly.
• 3:01:40
  Speaker 4: I knit it with my own hands, As you doubtless
• 3:01:42
  Speaker 4: discovered from internal evidence, you will have to wear it
• 3:01:45
  Speaker 4: on cold days and keep your coat buttoned up tight.
• 3:01:47
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Daddy, A thousand times. I think you're the
• 3:01:50
  Speaker 4: sweetest man that ever lived and the foolishest Judy. Here's
• 3:01:55
  Speaker 4: a four leaf clover from Camp mc bride to bring
• 3:01:57
  Speaker 4: you good luck in the new year, ninth January. Do
• 3:02:02
  Speaker 4: you wish to do something, Daddy, that will insure your
• 3:02:03
  Speaker 4: eternal salvation. There's a family here who are in awfully
• 3:02:07
  Speaker 4: desperate straits, a mother and father and four visible children.
• 3:02:11
  Speaker 4: The two older boys have disappeared into the world to
• 3:02:13
  Speaker 4: make their fortune and have not sent any of it back.
• 3:02:16
  Speaker 4: The father worked in a glass factory and got consumption.
• 3:02:19
  Speaker 4: It's awfully unhealthy work and has now been sent away
• 3:02:21
  Speaker 4: to a hospital that took all their savings. And the
• 3:02:24
  Speaker 4: support of the family falls upon the oldest daughter, who
• 3:02:27
  Speaker 4: is twenty four she dress makes for a dollar fifty
• 3:02:29
  Speaker 4: a day when she can get it, and embroider center pieces.
• 3:02:32
  Speaker 4: In the evening. The mother isn't very strong and is
• 3:02:35
  Speaker 4: extremely ineffectual and pious. She sits with her hands folded,
• 3:02:38
  Speaker 4: a picture of patient resignation, while the daughter kills herself
• 3:02:42
  Speaker 4: with overwork and responsibility and worry. She doesn't see how
• 3:02:45
  Speaker 4: they are going to get through the rest of the winter,
• 3:02:47
  Speaker 4: and I don't either. One hundred dollars would buy some
• 3:02:50
  Speaker 4: coal and some shoes for three children so that they
• 3:02:53
  Speaker 4: could go to school, and give a little margin so
• 3:02:55
  Speaker 4: that she needn't worry herself to death when a few
• 3:02:57
  Speaker 4: days pass and she doesn't get work. You are the
• 3:02:59
  Speaker 4: rich man, I know. Don't you suppose you could spare
• 3:03:02
  Speaker 4: one hundred dollars? That girl deserves help a lot more
• 3:03:05
  Speaker 4: than I ever did. I wouldn't ask it, except for
• 3:03:08
  Speaker 4: the girl. I don't care much what happens to the mother.
• 3:03:10
  Speaker 4: She is such a jellyfish. The way people are forever
• 3:03:13
  Speaker 4: rolling their eyes to heaven and saying perhaps it's all
• 3:03:16
  Speaker 4: for the best when they are perfectly dead shorts not
• 3:03:18
  Speaker 4: makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose
• 3:03:22
  Speaker 4: to call it is simply impotent inertia. I am for
• 3:03:25
  Speaker 4: a more militant religion. We are getting the most dreadful
• 3:03:29
  Speaker 4: lessons in philosophy, all of Schopenhauer for tomorrow. The professor
• 3:03:33
  Speaker 4: doesn't seem to realize that we are taking any other subject.
• 3:03:36
  Speaker 4: He's a queer old duck. He goes about with his
• 3:03:38
  Speaker 4: head in the clouds and blinks dazedly when occasionally he
• 3:03:42
  Speaker 4: strikes solid earth. He tries to lighten his lectures with
• 3:03:45
  Speaker 4: an occasional witticism, and we do our best to smile.
• 3:03:48
  Speaker 4: But I assure you his jokes are no laughing matter.
• 3:03:51
  Speaker 4: He spends his entire time between classes and trying to
• 3:03:54
  Speaker 4: figure out whether matter really exists, so whether he only
• 3:03:56
  Speaker 4: thinks it exists. I'm sure my sewing girl hasn't any
• 3:03:59
  Speaker 4: doubt but that it exists. Where do you think my
• 3:04:02
  Speaker 4: new novel is in the waste basket? I can see
• 3:04:05
  Speaker 4: myself that it's no good on earth? And when a
• 3:04:07
  Speaker 4: loving author realizes that, what would be the judgment of
• 3:04:10
  Speaker 4: a critical public? Later? I address you, Daddy, from a
• 3:04:14
  Speaker 4: bed of pain. For two days, I've been laid up
• 3:04:18
  Speaker 4: with swollen tonsils. I can just swallow hot milk, and
• 3:04:21
  Speaker 4: that's all. What were your parents thinking of not to
• 3:04:24
  Speaker 4: have those tonsils out when you were a baby, The
• 3:04:26
  Speaker 4: doctor wished to know. I'm sure I haven't an idea,
• 3:04:29
  Speaker 4: but I doubt if they were thinking much about me
• 3:04:31
  Speaker 4: yours ja. Next morning, I just read this over before
• 3:04:35
  Speaker 4: sealing it. I don't know why I cast such a
• 3:04:37
  Speaker 4: misty atmosphere over life. I hasten to assure you that
• 3:04:40
  Speaker 4: I am young and happy and exuberant, and I trust
• 3:04:43
  Speaker 4: you are the same. Youth has nothing to do with birthdays,
• 3:04:46
  Speaker 4: only with a livenedness of spirit. So even if your
• 3:04:49
  Speaker 4: hair is gray, Daddy, you can still be a boy.
• 3:04:51
  Speaker 4: Affectionately Judy, twelfth January. Dear mister philanthropist, your check for
• 3:04:58
  Speaker 4: my family came yesterday. Thanks, thank you so much. I
• 3:05:02
  Speaker 4: cut gymnasium and took it down to them right after luncheon.
• 3:05:04
  Speaker 4: And you should have seen the girl's face. She was
• 3:05:06
  Speaker 4: so surprised and happy and relieved that she looked almost
• 3:05:09
  Speaker 4: young and she's only twenty four. Isn't it pitiful? Anyway?
• 3:05:14
  Speaker 4: She feels now as though all the good things were
• 3:05:16
  Speaker 4: coming together. She has steady work ahead for two months.
• 3:05:19
  Speaker 4: Someone's getting married and there's a trousseau to make. Thank
• 3:05:22
  Speaker 4: the Good Lord, cried the mother when she grasped the
• 3:05:25
  Speaker 4: fact that the small piece of paper was one hundred dollars.
• 3:05:28
  Speaker 4: It wasn't the Good Lord at all, said I. It
• 3:05:30
  Speaker 4: was Daddy, long legs, mister Smith, I called you. But
• 3:05:34
  Speaker 4: it was the Good Lord who put it in his mind,
• 3:05:36
  Speaker 4: said she, Not at all. I put it in his
• 3:05:38
  Speaker 4: mind myself, said I. But anyway, Daddy, I trust the
• 3:05:42
  Speaker 4: Good Lord will reward you suitably. You deserve ten thousand
• 3:05:45
  Speaker 4: years out of purgatory. Yours most graithfully, Judy Abbott, fifteenth February. Mate, please,
• 3:05:53
  Speaker 4: your most excellent majesty. This morning I did eat my
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 4: breakfast upon a cold tucky pie and a goose, and
• 3:06:00
  Speaker 4: I did send for a cup of tea, a China
• 3:06:03
  Speaker 4: drink of which I had never drank before. Don't be nervous, Daddy,
• 3:06:08
  Speaker 4: I haven't lost my mind. I'm merely quoting Samuel Peeps.
• 3:06:11
  Speaker 4: We're reading him in connection with English history original sources.
• 3:06:15
  Speaker 4: Sally and Julia and I converse now in the language
• 3:06:17
  Speaker 4: of sixteen sixty. Listen to this. I went to charing
• 3:06:21
  Speaker 4: Cross to see Major Harrison hanged drawn and quoted he
• 3:06:25
  Speaker 4: looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.
• 3:06:28
  Speaker 4: And this dined with my lady, who is in handsome
• 3:06:32
  Speaker 4: mourning for her brother, who died yesterday of spotted fever.
• 3:06:36
  Speaker 4: Seems a little early to commence entertaining, doesn't it. A
• 3:06:39
  Speaker 4: friend of Peep's devised a very cunning manner whereby the
• 3:06:42
  Speaker 4: King might pay his debts out of the sale to
• 3:06:44
  Speaker 4: poor people of old decayed provisions. What do you, a reformer,
• 3:06:48
  Speaker 4: think of that? I don't believe we're so bad today.
• 3:06:51
  Speaker 4: As the newspapers make out, Samuel was as excited about
• 3:06:54
  Speaker 4: his clothes as any girl. He spent five times as
• 3:06:57
  Speaker 4: much on dress as his wife. That appears to have
• 3:06:59
  Speaker 4: been the golden age of husbands. Isn't this a touching entry?
• 3:07:03
  Speaker 4: You see? He really was honest today. Came home my
• 3:07:07
  Speaker 4: fine camlet cloak with gold buttons, which cost me much money,
• 3:07:10
  Speaker 4: and I pray God to make me able to pay
• 3:07:12
  Speaker 4: for it. Excuse me for being so full of peeps.
• 3:07:15
  Speaker 4: I'm writing a special topic on him. What do you think? Daddy?
• 3:07:19
  Speaker 4: The Self Government Association has abolished the ten o'clock rule.
• 3:07:22
  Speaker 4: We can keep our lights all night if we choose,
• 3:07:25
  Speaker 4: the only requirement being that we do not disturb others
• 3:07:28
  Speaker 4: we're not supposed to entertain on a large scale. The
• 3:07:31
  Speaker 4: result is a beautiful commentary on human nature. Now that
• 3:07:34
  Speaker 4: we may stay up as long as we choose, we
• 3:07:36
  Speaker 4: no longer choose. Our heads begin to drop at nine o'clock,
• 3:07:39
  Speaker 4: and by nine thirty the pen drops from our nerveless grasp.
• 3:07:43
  Speaker 4: It's nine thirty now, good night, Sunday. Just back from church,
• 3:07:48
  Speaker 4: preacher from Georgia. We must take caa, he says, not
• 3:07:52
  Speaker 4: to develop our intellect at the expense of our emotional natures.
• 3:07:56
  Speaker 4: But methought, it was a poor, dry sermon. Again, it
• 3:08:01
  Speaker 4: doesn't matter what part of the United States or Canada
• 3:08:03
  Speaker 4: they come from, or what denomination they are, we always
• 3:08:05
  Speaker 4: get the same sermon. Why on earth don't they go
• 3:08:07
  Speaker 4: to men's colleges and urge the students not to allow
• 3:08:11
  Speaker 4: their manly natures to be crushed out by too much
• 3:08:13
  Speaker 4: mental application. It's a beautiful day, frozen and icy and clear.
• 3:08:19
  Speaker 4: As soon as dinner is over, Sally and Julia and Marty,
• 3:08:22
  Speaker 4: Keene and eleanor Pratt friends of mine, but you don't
• 3:08:24
  Speaker 4: know them. And I are going to put on short
• 3:08:27
  Speaker 4: skirts and walk cross country to Crystal Spring Farm and
• 3:08:29
  Speaker 4: have a fried chicken and waffle supper, and then have
• 3:08:33
  Speaker 4: Crystal Spring drive us home and his buckboard. We are
• 3:08:35
  Speaker 4: supposed to be inside the campus at seven, but we
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 4: are going to stretch a point tonight and make it eight. Farewell,
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 4: kind sir, I have the honor of subscribing myself your
• 3:08:45
  Speaker 4: most loyal, dutiful, faithful, and obedient servant, Jay Abbott, March fifth,
• 3:08:53
  Speaker 4: Dear mister Trustee, Tomorrow is the first Wednesday in the month,
• 3:08:57
  Speaker 4: A weary day for the John Greerholme believe they'll be
• 3:09:00
  Speaker 4: when five o'clock comes and you pat them on the head,
• 3:09:03
  Speaker 4: take yourselves off. Did you individually ever pat me on
• 3:09:06
  Speaker 4: the head, Daddy? I don't believe so. My memory seems
• 3:09:09
  Speaker 4: to be concerned only with fat trustees. Give the home
• 3:09:12
  Speaker 4: I love, please, my truly love. I have quite a
• 3:09:15
  Speaker 4: feeling of tenderness for it as I look back through
• 3:09:17
  Speaker 4: a haze of four years. When I first came to college,
• 3:09:20
  Speaker 4: I felt quite resembleful because I've been robbed of the
• 3:09:23
  Speaker 4: normal kind of childhood that the other girls have had.
• 3:09:26
  Speaker 4: But now I don't feel that way. In the least
• 3:09:28
  Speaker 4: I regard it as a very unusual adventure. It gives
• 3:09:32
  Speaker 4: me a sort of vantage point from which to stand
• 3:09:34
  Speaker 4: aside and look at life emerging full grown. I get
• 3:09:37
  Speaker 4: a perspective on the world that other people who have
• 3:09:39
  Speaker 4: been brought up in the thick of things entirely lack.
• 3:09:42
  Speaker 4: I know lots of girls, Julia, for instance, who never
• 3:09:45
  Speaker 4: know that they are happy. They are so accustomed to
• 3:09:48
  Speaker 4: the feeling that their senses are deadened to it. But
• 3:09:51
  Speaker 4: as for me, I am perfectly sure every moment of
• 3:09:54
  Speaker 4: my life that I am happy, and I'm going to
• 3:09:56
  Speaker 4: keep on being no matter what unpleasant things turn up,
• 3:10:00
  Speaker 4: going to regard them, even toothaches, as interesting experiences and
• 3:10:04
  Speaker 4: be glad to know what they feel like. Whatever skies
• 3:10:07
  Speaker 4: above me, I have a heart for any fate. However, Daddy,
• 3:10:11
  Speaker 4: don't take this new affection for the j G H
• 3:10:13
  Speaker 4: two literally. If I have five children like Rousseau, I
• 3:10:16
  Speaker 4: shan't leave them on the steps of a foundling asylum
• 3:10:19
  Speaker 4: in order to ensure they're being brought up. Simply give
• 3:10:22
  Speaker 4: my kindest regards to missus Lippett that I think is truthful.
• 3:10:25
  Speaker 4: Love would be a little strong, and don't forget to
• 3:10:27
  Speaker 4: tell her what a beautiful nature I've developed. Affectionately Judy,
• 3:10:32
  Speaker 4: lock Willow, fourth April, Dear Daddy, do you observe the postmark?
• 3:10:37
  Speaker 4: Sally and I are embellishing lock Willow with our presence.
• 3:10:40
  Speaker 4: During the Easter vacation. We decided that the best thing
• 3:10:43
  Speaker 4: we could do with our ten days was to come
• 3:10:45
  Speaker 4: where it is quiet. Our nerves had got to the
• 3:10:47
  Speaker 4: point where they wouldn't stand another meal in Ferguson. Dining
• 3:10:50
  Speaker 4: in a room with four hundred girls is an ordeal.
• 3:10:52
  Speaker 4: When you're tired. There's so much noisy you can't hear
• 3:10:55
  Speaker 4: the girls across the table speak unless they make their
• 3:10:57
  Speaker 4: hands into a megaphone and shout that is the truth.
• 3:11:01
  Speaker 4: We are tramping over the hills and reading and writing
• 3:11:03
  Speaker 4: and having a nice RESTful time. We climbed to the
• 3:11:06
  Speaker 4: top of Sky Hill this morning, where Master Jervy and
• 3:11:08
  Speaker 4: I once cooked supper. It doesn't seem possible that it
• 3:11:11
  Speaker 4: was nearly two years ago. I could still see the
• 3:11:14
  Speaker 4: place where the smoke of our fire blackened the rock.
• 3:11:17
  Speaker 4: It is funny how certain places get connected with certain people,
• 3:11:20
  Speaker 4: and you never go back without thinking of them. I
• 3:11:23
  Speaker 4: was quite lonely without him for two minutes. What do
• 3:11:27
  Speaker 4: you think is my latest activity, Daddy? You will begin
• 3:11:29
  Speaker 4: to believe I am incorrigible. I'm writing a book. I
• 3:11:32
  Speaker 4: started it three weeks ago and am eating it up
• 3:11:35
  Speaker 4: in chunks. I've caught the secret master. Jervy and that
• 3:11:38
  Speaker 4: editor Man were right. You are most convincing when you
• 3:11:41
  Speaker 4: write about the things you know, and this time it
• 3:11:43
  Speaker 4: is about something that I do know exhaustively. Guess where
• 3:11:46
  Speaker 4: it's laid in the John Greer Home. And it's good, Daddy.
• 3:11:50
  Speaker 4: I actually believe it is just about the tiny little
• 3:11:53
  Speaker 4: things that happened every day. I'm a realist now. I've
• 3:11:56
  Speaker 4: abandoned romanticism. I shall go back to it later, though
• 3:12:00
  Speaker 4: my own adventurous future begins. This new book is going
• 3:12:03
  Speaker 4: to get itself finished and published. You see, if it doesn't,
• 3:12:06
  Speaker 4: if you just want a thing hard enough and keep
• 3:12:08
  Speaker 4: on trying, you do get it in the end. I've
• 3:12:11
  Speaker 4: been trying for four years to get a letter from you,
• 3:12:13
  Speaker 4: and I haven't given up hope yet. Goodbye, Daddy, Dear.
• 3:12:17
  Speaker 4: I like to call you daddy dear. It's so illiterative,
• 3:12:19
  Speaker 4: affectionately judy ps I forgot to tell you the farm news,
• 3:12:23
  Speaker 4: but it's very distressing. Skip this PostScript if you don't
• 3:12:26
  Speaker 4: want your sensibilities all wrought up. Poor old Grove is dead.
• 3:12:29
  Speaker 4: He got so that he couldn't chew, and they had
• 3:12:31
  Speaker 4: to shoot him. Nine chickens were killed by a weasel
• 3:12:34
  Speaker 4: or a skunk or a rat. Last week. One of
• 3:12:37
  Speaker 4: the cows is sick, and we had to have the
• 3:12:38
  Speaker 4: veterinary surgeon out from bunny rig four corners. AMESI stayed
• 3:12:42
  Speaker 4: up all night to give her lindsaed oil and whiskey.
• 3:12:44
  Speaker 4: But we have an awful suspicion that the poor sick
• 3:12:47
  Speaker 4: cow got nothing but lindseed oil. Sentimental Tommy, the tortoise
• 3:12:51
  Speaker 4: shell cat, has disappeared. We are afraid he's been caught
• 3:12:54
  Speaker 4: in a trap. There are a lot of troubles in
• 3:12:56
  Speaker 4: the world. Seventeenth May, Daddy long Legs. This is going
• 3:13:01
  Speaker 4: to be extremely short because my shoulder aches at the
• 3:13:03
  Speaker 4: sight of a pen. Lecture notes all day, immortal novel,
• 3:13:06
  Speaker 4: all evening, make too much writing commencement three weeks from
• 3:13:10
  Speaker 4: next Wednesday. I think you might come and make my acquaintance.
• 3:13:13
  Speaker 4: I shall hate you if you don't. Julia's inviting Master Jerviy,
• 3:13:17
  Speaker 4: he being her family, and Sally's inviting Jimmy McBee, he
• 3:13:20
  Speaker 4: being her family. But who is there for me to invite?
• 3:13:24
  Speaker 4: Just you and lip it, and I don't want her.
• 3:13:26
  Speaker 4: Please come yours with love and writer's cramp, Judy. End
• 3:13:31
  Speaker 4: of Part eight of Daddy Long Legs by Jeene Webster,
• 3:13:35
  Speaker 4: Part nine, Luck Willow, nineteenth June, Dear Daddy long Legs.
• 3:13:42
  Speaker 4: I'm educated. My diploma is in the bottom bureau drawer
• 3:13:46
  Speaker 4: of my two best dresses. Commencement was as usual, with
• 3:13:49
  Speaker 4: a few showers at vital moments. Thank you for your rosebuds.
• 3:13:53
  Speaker 4: They were lovely. Master Jervy and Master Jimmy both gave
• 3:13:57
  Speaker 4: me roses too, But I left theirs in the bathtub
• 3:13:59
  Speaker 4: and carried yours in the class procession. Here I am
• 3:14:03
  Speaker 4: at Lock Willow for the summer forever. Maybe the board
• 3:14:06
  Speaker 4: is cheap, the surroundings quiet and conductive to a literary life.
• 3:14:10
  Speaker 4: What more does a struggling author wish. I'm mad about
• 3:14:13
  Speaker 4: my book. I think about it every waking moment and
• 3:14:16
  Speaker 4: dream of it at night. All I want is peace
• 3:14:19
  Speaker 4: and quiet, lots of time to work, interspersed with nourishing meals.
• 3:14:24
  Speaker 4: Master Jervy is coming up for a week or so
• 3:14:26
  Speaker 4: in August, and Jimmy McBride is going to drop in
• 3:14:28
  Speaker 4: sometime through the summer. He's connected with a bond house
• 3:14:32
  Speaker 4: now and goes about the country selling bonds to banks.
• 3:14:35
  Speaker 4: He's going to combine the Farmer's National at the Corners
• 3:14:38
  Speaker 4: and me on the same trip. You see that lock
• 3:14:41
  Speaker 4: Willow isn't entirely lacking in society. I'd be expecting to
• 3:14:45
  Speaker 4: have you come motoring through. Only I know now that
• 3:14:48
  Speaker 4: it is hopeless. When you wouldn't come to my commencement,
• 3:14:50
  Speaker 4: I tore you from my heart and buried you forever.
• 3:14:53
  Speaker 4: Judy Abbott a b. Twenty fourth July, Dearest Daddy long legs.
• 3:14:59
  Speaker 4: Isn't it fun to work? Or don't you ever do it?
• 3:15:02
  Speaker 4: It's especially fun when your kind of work is the
• 3:15:04
  Speaker 4: thing you'd rather do more than anything else in the world.
• 3:15:07
  Speaker 4: I've been writing as fast as my pen would go
• 3:15:09
  Speaker 4: every day this summer, and my only quarrel with life
• 3:15:12
  Speaker 4: is that the days aren't long enough to write all
• 3:15:14
  Speaker 4: the beautiful and valuable and entertaining thoughts. I'm thinking I
• 3:15:18
  Speaker 4: finished the second draft of my book, and I'm going
• 3:15:20
  Speaker 4: to begin the third tomorrow morning, at half past seven.
• 3:15:23
  Speaker 4: It's the sweetest book you ever saw. It is, truly.
• 3:15:26
  Speaker 4: I think of nothing else. I can barely wait in
• 3:15:28
  Speaker 4: the morning to dress and eat before beginning. And then
• 3:15:31
  Speaker 4: I write and write and write till suddenly I'm so
• 3:15:33
  Speaker 4: tired that i'm limp all over. Then I go out
• 3:15:36
  Speaker 4: with Colin the new sheep dog, and rob through the
• 3:15:39
  Speaker 4: fields and get a fresh supply of ideas for the
• 3:15:41
  Speaker 4: next day. It's the most beautiful book you ever saw.
• 3:15:44
  Speaker 4: Oh pardon I said that before. You don't think me conceited,
• 3:15:48
  Speaker 4: do you, Daddy Dear, I'm not really, Only just now
• 3:15:51
  Speaker 4: I'm in the enthusiastic stage. Maybe later on I'll get
• 3:15:54
  Speaker 4: cold and critical and stuffy. No, I'm sure I won't.
• 3:15:57
  Speaker 4: This time. I've written a real book. Just wait till
• 3:15:59
  Speaker 4: you see it. I'll try for a moment to talk
• 3:16:01
  Speaker 4: about something else. I never told you, did I that
• 3:16:05
  Speaker 4: AMESSI and Carrie got married less may. They're still working here,
• 3:16:08
  Speaker 4: but so far as I can see, it has spoiled
• 3:16:09
  Speaker 4: them both. She used to laugh when he tramped in
• 3:16:12
  Speaker 4: mud and dropped ashes on the floor, But now you
• 3:16:14
  Speaker 4: should hear her scold, and she doesn't curl her hair
• 3:16:17
  Speaker 4: any longer. AMESI, who used to be so obliging about
• 3:16:20
  Speaker 4: beating rugs and carrying wood, grumbles if you suggest such
• 3:16:24
  Speaker 4: a thing. Also, his neckties are quite dingy, black and
• 3:16:27
  Speaker 4: brown where they used to be scarlet and purple. I've
• 3:16:30
  Speaker 4: determined never to marry. It's a deteriorating process. Evidently, there
• 3:16:34
  Speaker 4: isn't much of any farm news. The animals are all
• 3:16:36
  Speaker 4: the best of health. The pigs are unusually fat, the
• 3:16:39
  Speaker 4: cows seem contented, and the hens are laying well. Are
• 3:16:42
  Speaker 4: you interested in poultry? If so, let me recommend that
• 3:16:45
  Speaker 4: invaluable little work two hundred eggs per hen per year.
• 3:16:48
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking of starting an incubator next spring and raising broilers.
• 3:16:52
  Speaker 4: You see, I'm settled at Lockwillow permanently. I've decided to
• 3:16:55
  Speaker 4: stay until I've written a hundred and fourteen novels like
• 3:16:58
  Speaker 4: Anthony Trollop's Mother, and I shall have completed my life
• 3:17:01
  Speaker 4: work and can retire and travel. Mister James McBride spent
• 3:17:05
  Speaker 4: last Sunday with us fried chicken and ice cream for dinner,
• 3:17:08
  Speaker 4: both of which he appeared to appreciate. I was awfully
• 3:17:10
  Speaker 4: glad to see him he brought a momentary reminder that
• 3:17:13
  Speaker 4: the world at large exists. Poor Jimmy is having a
• 3:17:16
  Speaker 4: hard time peddling his bonds. The Farmer's National at the
• 3:17:19
  Speaker 4: Corners wouldn't have anything to do with them, in spite
• 3:17:21
  Speaker 4: of the fact that they pay six percent interests and
• 3:17:23
  Speaker 4: sometimes seven. I think he'll end up by going home
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 4: to Worcester and taking a job in his father's factory.
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 4: He's too open and confiding and kind hearted ever to
• 3:17:31
  Speaker 4: make a successful fit andseer. But to be the manager
• 3:17:34
  Speaker 4: of a flourishing overall factory is a very desirable position,
• 3:17:37
  Speaker 4: don't you think. Just now he turns up his nose
• 3:17:40
  Speaker 4: at overalls, but he'll come to them. I hope you'll
• 3:17:43
  Speaker 4: appreciate the fact that this is a long letter from
• 3:17:45
  Speaker 4: a person with writer's cramp. But I still love you, daddy, dear,
• 3:17:49
  Speaker 4: and I'm very happy with beautiful scenery all about, and
• 3:17:52
  Speaker 4: lots to eat in a comfortable four post bed, and
• 3:17:54
  Speaker 4: a ream of blank paper and a pint of ink.
• 3:17:57
  Speaker 4: What more does one want in the world? Yours is
• 3:17:59
  Speaker 4: all is Judy ps. The postman arrives with some more
• 3:18:03
  Speaker 4: news we are to expect, Master Jerviy on Friday next
• 3:18:06
  Speaker 4: to spend a week. That's a very pleasant prospect. Only
• 3:18:09
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid my poor book will suffer. Master Jervy is
• 3:18:12
  Speaker 4: very demanding. Twenty seventh August. Dear Daddy long Legs, where
• 3:18:19
  Speaker 4: are you? I wonder? I never know what part of
• 3:18:22
  Speaker 4: the world you're in, but I hope you're not in
• 3:18:24
  Speaker 4: New York during this awful weather. I hope you're on
• 3:18:26
  Speaker 4: a mountain peak, but not in Switzerland, somewhere nearer, looking
• 3:18:30
  Speaker 4: at the snow and thinking about me. Please be thinking
• 3:18:34
  Speaker 4: about me. I'm quite lonely, and I want to be
• 3:18:38
  Speaker 4: thought about. Oh, Daddy, I wish I knew you, and
• 3:18:43
  Speaker 4: when we were unhappy we could cheer each other up.
• 3:18:46
  Speaker 4: I don't think I can stand much more of lock Willow.
• 3:18:49
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking of moving. Sally is going to do settlement
• 3:18:51
  Speaker 4: work in Boston next winter. Don't you think it would
• 3:18:54
  Speaker 4: be nice for me to go with her? Then we
• 3:18:56
  Speaker 4: could have a studio together. I would write while she's settled,
• 3:18:59
  Speaker 4: and we could be together in the evenings. Evenings are
• 3:19:02
  Speaker 4: very long when there's no one but the simples and
• 3:19:04
  Speaker 4: carry and ameside to talk to. I know in advance
• 3:19:07
  Speaker 4: that you won't like my studio idea. I can read
• 3:19:10
  Speaker 4: your secretary's letter now, mister RuSHA Abbott. Dear Madam, mister
• 3:19:14
  Speaker 4: Smith prefers that you remain at lock Willow yours truly,
• 3:19:17
  Speaker 4: elmer H. Griggs. I hate your secretary. I'm certain that
• 3:19:22
  Speaker 4: a man named elmer H. Griggs must be horrid, But truly, Daddy,
• 3:19:25
  Speaker 4: I think I shall have to go to Boston. I
• 3:19:27
  Speaker 4: can't stay here. If something doesn't happened soon, I shall
• 3:19:30
  Speaker 4: throw myself into the silo pit out of sheer desperation.
• 3:19:35
  Speaker 4: Oh Mercy, but it's hot, while the grass is burnt up,
• 3:19:38
  Speaker 4: and the brooks are dry, the roads are dusty. Hasn't
• 3:19:41
  Speaker 4: rained for weeks and weeks. This letter sounds as though
• 3:19:44
  Speaker 4: I had hydrophobia, but I haven't. I just want some family. Goodbye,
• 3:19:50
  Speaker 4: my dearest Daddy. I wish I knew you. Judy lock Willow,
• 3:19:57
  Speaker 4: nineteenth September. Dear Daddy, something is happened and I need advice.
• 3:20:01
  Speaker 4: I need it from you and from nobody else in
• 3:20:03
  Speaker 4: the world. Wouldn't it be possible for me to see you.
• 3:20:06
  Speaker 4: It's so much easier to talk than to write. And
• 3:20:09
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid your secretary might open the letter. Judy ps.
• 3:20:14
  Speaker 4: I'm very unhappy. Lock Willow. Third October. Dear Daddy long Legs.
• 3:20:19
  Speaker 4: Your note, written in your own hand and a pretty
• 3:20:21
  Speaker 4: wobbly hand, came this morning. I'm so sorry that you've
• 3:20:25
  Speaker 4: been ill. I wouldn't have bothered you with my affairs
• 3:20:27
  Speaker 4: if I had known. Yes, I will tell you the trouble,
• 3:20:30
  Speaker 4: but it's sort of complicated to write and very private.
• 3:20:33
  Speaker 4: Please don't keep this letter, but burn it before I begin.
• 3:20:37
  Speaker 4: Here's a check for one thousand dollars. It seems funny,
• 3:20:40
  Speaker 4: doesn't it for me to be sending a check to you?
• 3:20:43
  Speaker 4: Where do you think I got it? I've sold my story, Daddy.
• 3:20:47
  Speaker 4: It's going to be published serially in seven parts and
• 3:20:50
  Speaker 4: then in a book. You might think I'd be wild
• 3:20:53
  Speaker 4: with joy, but I'm not. I'm entirely apathetic. Of course,
• 3:20:57
  Speaker 4: I'm glad to begin paying you. I owe you over
• 3:20:59
  Speaker 4: two thousand more. It's coming in installments.
• 3:21:02
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 3:21:02
  Speaker 4: Don't be hard please about taking it, because it makes
• 3:21:04
  Speaker 4: me happy to return it. I owe you a great
• 3:21:07
  Speaker 4: deal more than the mere money and the rest I
• 3:21:09
  Speaker 4: will continue to pay all my life in gratitude and affection.
• 3:21:13
  Speaker 4: And now, Daddy, about the other thing, please give me
• 3:21:16
  Speaker 4: your most worldly advice, whether you think I'll like it
• 3:21:18
  Speaker 4: or not. You know that I've always had a very
• 3:21:22
  Speaker 4: special feeling towards you. You sort of represented my whole family.
• 3:21:26
  Speaker 4: But you won't mind, will you? If I tell you
• 3:21:28
  Speaker 4: that I have a very much more special feeling for
• 3:21:31
  Speaker 4: another man. You can probably guess without much trouble who
• 3:21:35
  Speaker 4: he is. I suspect that my letters have been very
• 3:21:37
  Speaker 4: full of master Jervy for a very long time. I
• 3:21:41
  Speaker 4: wish I could make you understand what he's like and
• 3:21:43
  Speaker 4: how entirely companionable we are. We think the same about everything.
• 3:21:48
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I have a tendency to make over my
• 3:21:50
  Speaker 4: ideas to match his. But he's almost always right. He
• 3:21:54
  Speaker 4: ought to be, you know, for he has fourteen year
• 3:21:55
  Speaker 4: start of me, and otherwise though, he's just an overgrown
• 3:21:58
  Speaker 4: boy and he does need look looking after. He hasn't
• 3:22:01
  Speaker 4: any sense about wearing rubbers when it rains. He and
• 3:22:04
  Speaker 4: I always think the same things are funny, and that
• 3:22:07
  Speaker 4: is such a lot. It's dreadful when two people's senses
• 3:22:10
  Speaker 4: of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging
• 3:22:14
  Speaker 4: that gulf. And he is oh well, he is just himself,
• 3:22:19
  Speaker 4: and I miss him, and miss him and miss him.
• 3:22:22
  Speaker 4: The whole world seems empty and aching. I hate the
• 3:22:25
  Speaker 4: moonlight because it's beautiful and he isn't here to see
• 3:22:28
  Speaker 4: it with me. That maybe you've loved somebody too, and
• 3:22:31
  Speaker 4: you know if you have, I don't need to explain
• 3:22:35
  Speaker 4: if you haven't, I can't explain anyway. That's the way
• 3:22:39
  Speaker 4: I feel. And I've refused to marry him. I didn't
• 3:22:44
  Speaker 4: tell him why. I was just dumb and miserable. I
• 3:22:46
  Speaker 4: couldn't think of anything to say. And now he's gone away,
• 3:22:49
  Speaker 4: imagining that I want to marry Jimmy McBride. I don't
• 3:22:52
  Speaker 4: in the least. I wouldn't think of marrying Jimmy. He
• 3:22:54
  Speaker 4: hasn't grown up enough. And Master Jermy and I got
• 3:22:58
  Speaker 4: into a dreadful muddle of misunderstanding. We both hurt each
• 3:23:00
  Speaker 4: other's feelings. The reason I sent him away was not
• 3:23:03
  Speaker 4: because I didn't care for him, but because I cared
• 3:23:05
  Speaker 4: for him so much. I was afraid he would regret
• 3:23:08
  Speaker 4: it in the future, and I couldn't stand that. It
• 3:23:11
  Speaker 4: didn't seem right for a person of my lack of
• 3:23:14
  Speaker 4: antecedents to marry into any such family as his. I
• 3:23:18
  Speaker 4: never told him about the orphan asylum, and I hated
• 3:23:20
  Speaker 4: to explain that I didn't know who I was. I
• 3:23:22
  Speaker 4: may be dreadful, you know, and his family are proud,
• 3:23:26
  Speaker 4: and I'm proud too. Also, I feel sort of bound
• 3:23:30
  Speaker 4: to you. After having been educated to be a writer,
• 3:23:33
  Speaker 4: I must at least try to be one. It would
• 3:23:36
  Speaker 4: scarcely be fair to accept your education and then go
• 3:23:38
  Speaker 4: off and not use it. But now that I'm going
• 3:23:41
  Speaker 4: to be able to pay back the money, I feel
• 3:23:43
  Speaker 4: that I have partially discharged that debt. Besides, I suppose
• 3:23:47
  Speaker 4: I could keep on being a writer even if I
• 3:23:49
  Speaker 4: did marry. The two professions are not necessarily exclusive. I've
• 3:23:54
  Speaker 4: been thinking very hard about it. Of Course, he's a socialist,
• 3:23:57
  Speaker 4: and he has unconventional ideas. Maybe he wouldn't mind marrying
• 3:24:00
  Speaker 4: into the proletariat so much as some men might. Perhaps
• 3:24:04
  Speaker 4: when two people are exactly in a chord and always
• 3:24:06
  Speaker 4: happy when together and lonely went apart, they ought not
• 3:24:09
  Speaker 4: to let anything in the world stand between them. Of
• 3:24:12
  Speaker 4: Course I want to believe that, but i'd like to
• 3:24:15
  Speaker 4: get your unemotional opinion. You probably belong to a family also,
• 3:24:21
  Speaker 4: and we'll look at it from a worldly point of
• 3:24:22
  Speaker 4: view and not just a sympathetic human point of view.
• 3:24:26
  Speaker 4: So you see how brave I am to lay it
• 3:24:27
  Speaker 4: before you. Suppose I go to him and explain that
• 3:24:31
  Speaker 4: the trouble isn't Jimmy, but is the John Greerholm. Would
• 3:24:36
  Speaker 4: that be a dreadful thing for me to do. It
• 3:24:39
  Speaker 4: would take a great deal of courage. I'd almost rather
• 3:24:42
  Speaker 4: be miserable for the rest of my life. This happened
• 3:24:46
  Speaker 4: nearly two months ago. I haven't heard a word from
• 3:24:48
  Speaker 4: him since he was here. I was just getting sort
• 3:24:51
  Speaker 4: of acclimated to the feeling of a broken heart when
• 3:24:53
  Speaker 4: a letter came from Julia that stirred me up all again.
• 3:24:56
  Speaker 4: She said very casually that Uncle Jervis had been caught
• 3:24:59
  Speaker 4: out all night in a storm when he was hunting
• 3:25:01
  Speaker 4: in Canada and had been ill ever since with pneumonia,
• 3:25:04
  Speaker 4: and I never knew it. I was feeling hurt because
• 3:25:07
  Speaker 4: he had just disappeared into blankness without a word. I
• 3:25:11
  Speaker 4: think he's pretty unhappy, and I know I am what
• 3:25:15
  Speaker 4: seems to you the right thing for me to do.
• 3:25:18
  Speaker 4: Judy sixth October, Dear Daddy long Legs, Yes, certainly, I'll
• 3:25:24
  Speaker 4: come at half past four next Wednesday afternoon. Of course
• 3:25:28
  Speaker 4: I can find the way. I've been in New York
• 3:25:29
  Speaker 4: three times, and I'm not quite a baby. I can't
• 3:25:32
  Speaker 4: believe that I'm really going to see you. I've been
• 3:25:35
  Speaker 4: just thinking of you so long that it hardly seems
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  Speaker 4: as though you are a tangible, flesh and blood person.
• 3:25:40
  Speaker 4: You are awfully good, daddy, to bother yourself with me
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  Speaker 4: when you're not strong. Take care and don't catch cold.
• 3:25:46
  Speaker 4: These fall rains are very damp. Affectionately, Judy ps, I've
• 3:25:52
  Speaker 4: just had an awful thought. Have you a butler? I'm
• 3:25:55
  Speaker 4: afraid of butler's and if one opens the door, I
• 3:25:57
  Speaker 4: she'll faint upon the step. What can I say to him?
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  Speaker 4: You didn't tell me your name? Shall I ask for
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  Speaker 4: mister Smith? Thursday morning, My very dearest Master Jervy Daddy
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  Speaker 4: long Legs Pendleton Smith. Did you sleep last night? I didn't,
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  Speaker 4: not a single wink. I was too amazed and excited
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  Speaker 4: and bewildered and happy. I don't believe I shall ever
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  Speaker 4: sleep again or eat either, but I hope you slept.
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  Speaker 4: You must, you know, because then you will get well
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  Speaker 4: faster and can come to me. Dear man, I can't
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  Speaker 4: bear to think how ill you've been, and all the
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  Speaker 4: time I never knew it. When the doctor came down
• 3:26:40
  Speaker 4: yesterday to put me in the cab, he told me
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  Speaker 4: that for three days they gave you up, Oh dearest,
• 3:26:44
  Speaker 4: If that had happened, the light would have gone out
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  Speaker 4: of the world for me. I suppose that someday, in
• 3:26:49
  Speaker 4: the far future, one of us must leave the other,
• 3:26:52
  Speaker 4: but at least we shall have had our happiness, and
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  Speaker 4: there will be memories to live with. I meant to
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  Speaker 4: cheer you up, and instead I have to myself, for
• 3:27:01
  Speaker 4: in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I
• 3:27:04
  Speaker 4: could be, I'm also soberer. A fear that something may
• 3:27:07
  Speaker 4: happen rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before
• 3:27:11
  Speaker 4: I could be frivolous and care free and unconcerned because
• 3:27:14
  Speaker 4: I had nothing precious to lose. But now I shall
• 3:27:17
  Speaker 4: have a great, big worry all the rest of my life.
• 3:27:20
  Speaker 4: Whenever you are away from me, I shall be thinking
• 3:27:22
  Speaker 4: of all the automobiles that can run you over, or
• 3:27:25
  Speaker 4: the signboards that can fall on your head, or the dreadful,
• 3:27:28
  Speaker 4: squirmy germs that you may be swallowing. My peace of
• 3:27:31
  Speaker 4: mind is gone forever. But anyway, I never cared much
• 3:27:36
  Speaker 4: for just plain thiefs. Please get well, fast, fast fast.
• 3:27:41
  Speaker 4: I want to have you close by where I can
• 3:27:42
  Speaker 4: touch you and make sure you are tangible. Such a
• 3:27:46
  Speaker 4: little half hour we had together. I'm afraid maybe I
• 3:27:49
  Speaker 4: dreamed it. If I were only a member of your family,
• 3:27:53
  Speaker 4: a very distant fourth cousin, then I could come and
• 3:27:56
  Speaker 4: visit you every day and read aloud, and plump up
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  Speaker 4: your pillow and smooth those two little wrinkles in your
• 3:28:02
  Speaker 4: forehead and make the corners of your mouth turn up
• 3:28:05
  Speaker 4: in a nice, cheerful smile. But you are cheerful again,
• 3:28:08
  Speaker 4: aren't you you were yesterday? Before I left, the doctor
• 3:28:12
  Speaker 4: said I must be a good nurse. The way you
• 3:28:14
  Speaker 4: look ten years younger. I hope that being in love
• 3:28:17
  Speaker 4: doesn't make everyone ten years younger. Will you still care
• 3:28:20
  Speaker 4: for me, darling? If I turn out to be only eleven,
• 3:28:25
  Speaker 4: yesterday was the most wonderful day that could ever happen.
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  Speaker 4: If I live to be ninety nine, I shall never
• 3:28:31
  Speaker 4: forget the tiniest detail. The girl that left lock Willow
• 3:28:35
  Speaker 4: at dawn was a very different person from the one
• 3:28:37
  Speaker 4: who came back at night. Missus Semple called me at
• 3:28:41
  Speaker 4: half past four. I started wide awake in the darkness,
• 3:28:43
  Speaker 4: and the first thought that popped into my head was
• 3:28:46
  Speaker 4: I'm going to see Daddy long Legs. I ate breakfast
• 3:28:49
  Speaker 4: in the kitchen by candle light, then drove the five
• 3:28:52
  Speaker 4: miles to the station through the most glorious October coloring.
• 3:28:56
  Speaker 4: The sun came up on the way, and the swamp
• 3:28:57
  Speaker 4: maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange, and the stone
• 3:29:01
  Speaker 4: walls and cornfields sparkled with hoarfrost. The air was keen
• 3:29:06
  Speaker 4: and clear and full of promise. I knew something was
• 3:29:09
  Speaker 4: going to happen all the way in the tray and
• 3:29:12
  Speaker 4: the rails kept singing, You're going to see Daddy long Legs.
• 3:29:15
  Speaker 4: It made me feel secure. I had such faith in
• 3:29:18
  Speaker 4: Daddy's ability to set things right, and I knew that
• 3:29:21
  Speaker 4: somewhere another man dearer than Daddy was wanting to see me.
• 3:29:26
  Speaker 4: And somehow I had a feeling that before the journey ended,
• 3:29:28
  Speaker 4: I should meet him too. And you see, when I
• 3:29:33
  Speaker 4: came to the house on Madison Avenue, it looked so
• 3:29:35
  Speaker 4: big and brown and forbidding that I didn't dare go in.
• 3:29:39
  Speaker 4: So I walked around the block to get up my courage.
• 3:29:42
  Speaker 4: But I needn't have been afraid. Your butler is such
• 3:29:44
  Speaker 4: a nice, fatherly old man that he made me feel
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  Speaker 4: at home at once. Is this miss Abbott, he said
• 3:29:50
  Speaker 4: to me, and I said yes, so I didn't have
• 3:29:52
  Speaker 4: to ask for mister Smith after all. He told me
• 3:29:56
  Speaker 4: to wait in the drawing room. It was a very somber,
• 3:29:58
  Speaker 4: magnificent man's room. I sat down on the edge of
• 3:30:02
  Speaker 4: a big upholstered chair and kept saying to myself, I'm
• 3:30:05
  Speaker 4: going to see Daddy long legs. I'm going to see
• 3:30:07
  Speaker 4: Daddy long legs. Then presently the man came back and
• 3:30:11
  Speaker 4: asked me please to step up to the library. I
• 3:30:15
  Speaker 4: was so excited that really and truly, my feet would
• 3:30:17
  Speaker 4: hardly take me up outside the door, he turned and whispered,
• 3:30:21
  Speaker 4: he's been very illness. This is the first day he's
• 3:30:23
  Speaker 4: been allowed to sit up. You'll not stay long enough
• 3:30:26
  Speaker 4: to excite him. I knew from the way he said
• 3:30:29
  Speaker 4: it that he loved you, and I think he's an
• 3:30:31
  Speaker 4: old deer. Then he knocked and said, Miss Abbott, and
• 3:30:36
  Speaker 4: I went in and the door closed behind me. It
• 3:30:40
  Speaker 4: was so dim coming in from the brightly lighted hall
• 3:30:42
  Speaker 4: that for a moment I could scarcely make out anything.
• 3:30:46
  Speaker 4: Then I saw a big easy chair before the fire,
• 3:30:48
  Speaker 4: and a shining tea table with a smaller chair beside it,
• 3:30:52
  Speaker 4: and I realized that a man was sitting in the
• 3:30:54
  Speaker 4: big chair, propped up by pillows, with a rug over
• 3:30:56
  Speaker 4: his knees. Before I could stop him, he rose rather
• 3:31:00
  Speaker 4: shakily and steadied himself by the back of the chair
• 3:31:03
  Speaker 4: and just looked at me without a word. And then
• 3:31:08
  Speaker 4: and then I saw it was you. But even then
• 3:31:11
  Speaker 4: I didn't understand. I thought Daddy had had you come
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  Speaker 4: there to meet me for a surprise. Then you laughed
• 3:31:18
  Speaker 4: and held out your hand and said to your little Judy,
• 3:31:20
  Speaker 4: couldn't you guess that I was Daddy long legs? In
• 3:31:24
  Speaker 4: an instant, it flashed over me. Oh, but I have
• 3:31:28
  Speaker 4: been stupid. A hundred little things might have told me
• 3:31:32
  Speaker 4: if I'd had any wits, I wouldn't make a very
• 3:31:35
  Speaker 4: good detective, would I? Daddy Jervy? What must I call you?
• 3:31:40
  Speaker 4: Just playing Jervy sounds disrespectful, and I can't be disrespectful
• 3:31:43
  Speaker 4: to you. It was a very sweet half hour before
• 3:31:48
  Speaker 4: your doctor came and sent me away. I was so
• 3:31:50
  Speaker 4: dazed when I got to the station that I almost
• 3:31:52
  Speaker 4: took a train for Saint Louis. And you were pretty
• 3:31:55
  Speaker 4: dazed too. You forgot to give me any tea. We're
• 3:32:00
  Speaker 4: both very very happy, aren't we. I drove back to
• 3:32:03
  Speaker 4: Lockwillow in the dark, but oh how the stars were shining.
• 3:32:07
  Speaker 4: And this morning I've been out with Colin, visiting all
• 3:32:10
  Speaker 4: the places that you and I went to together, and
• 3:32:12
  Speaker 4: remembering what you said and how you looked. The woods
• 3:32:15
  Speaker 4: to dare burnished bronze, and the air is full of frost.
• 3:32:19
  Speaker 4: It's climbing weather. I wish you were here to climb
• 3:32:23
  Speaker 4: the hills with me. I'm missing you dreadfully, Jervy, dear,
• 3:32:27
  Speaker 4: but it's a happy kind of missing. We'll be together soon.
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  Speaker 4: We belong to each other now, really and truly, no
• 3:32:35
  Speaker 4: make believe. Doesn't it seem queer for me to belong
• 3:32:39
  Speaker 4: to someone at last? It seems very very sweet. And
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  Speaker 4: I shall never let you be sorry for a single instant.
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  Speaker 4: Yours forever and ever, Judy. End of Daddy Long Legs
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  Speaker 4: by Jeanne Webster