正文 第20章 The Letter of Miss Jerusha to Daddy-Legs (16)(1 / 3)

Wait until you see the orphan asylum that I'm going to be the head of!It's my favorite play at night before I go to sleep.I plan it out to the littlest detail-the meals and clothes and study and amusements and punishments;for even my superior orphans are sometimes bad.

But anyway,they are going to be happy.I think that everyone,no matter how many troubles he may have when he grows up,ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon.And if I ever have any children of my own,no matter how unhappy I may be,I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

(There goes the chapel bell-I'll finish this letter sometime.)

Thursday

When I came in from Laboratory this afternoon,I found a squirrel sitting on the tea table helping himself to almonds.These are the kind of callers we entertain now that warm weather has come and the window stays open-

Saturday morning

Perhaps you think,last night being Friday,with no classes today,that I passed a nice,quiet,readable evening with the set of Stevenson that I bought with my prize money?But if so,you've never attended a girls'college,Daddy dear.Six friends dropped in to make fudge,and one of them dropped the fudge-while it was still liquid-right in the middle of our best rug.We shall never be able to clean up the mess.

I haven't mentioned any lessons of late,but we are still having them every day.It's sort of a relief though,to get away from them and discuss life in the large-rather one-sided discussions that you and I hold,but that's your own fault.You are welcome to answer back anytime you choose.

I've been writing this letter off and on for three days,and I fear by now vous êtes bien bored!

Good-bye,nice Mr.Man,

Judy

Mr.Daddy-Long-Legs Smith,

Sir:Having completed the study of argumentation and the science of dividing a thesis into heads,I have decided to adopt the following form for letter writing.It contains all necessary facts,but no unnecessary verbiage.

Ⅰ.We had written examinations this week in: