The poor，please observe，being a sort of useful domestic animal.If I hadn't grown into such a perfect lady，I should have gone up after service and told him what I thought.
October 25th
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs，
I've made the basketball team and you ought to see the bruise on my left shoulder.It's blue and mahogany with little streaks of orange.Julia Pendleton tried for the team，but she didn't make it.Hooray！
You see what a mean disposition I have.
College gets nicer and nicer.I like the girls and the teachers and the classes and the campus and the things to eat.We have ice cream twice a week and we never have cornmeal mush.
You only wanted to hear from me once a month，didn't you？And I've been peppering you with letters every few days！But I've been so excited about all these new adventures that I must talk to somebody；and you're the only one I know.Please excuse my exuberance；I'll settle pretty soon.If my letters bore you，you can always toss them into the wastebasket.I promise not to write another till the middle of November.
Yours most loquaciously，
Judy Abbott
November 15th
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs，
Listen to what I've learned today：
The area of the convex surface of the frustum of a regular pyramid is half the product of the sum of the perimeters of its bases by the altitude of either of its trapezoids.
It doesn't sound true，but it is-I can prove it！
You've never heard about my clothes，have you，Daddy？Six dresses，all new and beautiful and bought for me-not handed down from somebody bigger.Perhaps you don't realize what a climax that marks in the career of an orphan？You gave them to me，and I am very，very，very much obliged.It's a fine thing to be educated-but nothing compared to the dizzying experience of owning six new dresses.Miss Pritchard，who is on the visiting committee，picked them out-not Mrs.Lippett，thank goodness.I have an evening dress，pink mull over silk（I'm perfectly beautiful in that），and a blue church dress，and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming（makes me look like a Gypsy）and another of rose-colored challis，and a gray street suit，and an everyday dress for classes.That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton，perhaps，but for Jerusha Abbott-oh，my！