Daddy-Long-Legs eBook

Jean Webster
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 160 pages of information about Daddy-Long-Legs.

Daddy-Long-Legs eBook

Jean Webster
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 160 pages of information about Daddy-Long-Legs.

I. We had written examinations this week in: 
       A. Chemistry. 
       B. History.

II.  A new dormitory is being built. 
       A. Its material is: 
           (a) red brick.
           (b) grey stone. 
       B. Its capacity will be: 
           (a) one dean, five instructors.
           (b) two hundred girls.
           (c) one housekeeper, three cooks, twenty waitresses,
               twenty chambermaids.

III.  We had junket for dessert tonight.

IV.  I am writing a special topic upon the Sources of Shakespeare’s Plays.

V. Lou McMahon slipped and fell this afternoon at basket ball,
and she: 
       A. Dislocated her shoulder. 
       B. Bruised her knee.

VI.  I have a new hat trimmed with: 
       A. Blue velvet ribbon. 
       B. Two blue quills. 
       C. Three red pompoms.

VII.  It is half past nine.

VIII.  Good night. 
                                           Judy

2nd June
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

You will never guess the nice thing that has happened.

The McBrides have asked me to spend the summer at their camp in the Adirondacks!  They belong to a sort of club on a lovely little lake in the middle of the woods.  The different members have houses made of logs dotted about among the trees, and they go canoeing on the lake, and take long walks through trails to other camps, and have dances once a week in the club house—­Jimmie McBride is going to have a college friend visiting him part of the summer, so you see we shall have plenty of men to dance with.

Wasn’t it sweet of Mrs. McBride to ask me?  It appears that she liked me when I was there for Christmas.

Please excuse this being short.  It isn’t a real letter; it’s just
to let you know that I’m disposed of for the summer. 
                   Yours,
                       In a very contented frame of mind,
          
                                         Judy

5th June
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

Your secretary man has just written to me saying that Mr. Smith prefers that I should not accept Mrs. McBride’s invitation, but should return to Lock Willow the same as last summer.

Why, why, why, Daddy?

You don’t understand about it.  Mrs. McBride does want me, really and truly.  I’m not the least bit of trouble in the house.  I’m a help.  They don’t take up many servants, and Sallie an I can do lots of useful things.  It’s a fine chance for me to learn housekeeping.  Every woman ought to understand it, and I only know asylum-keeping.

There aren’t any girls our age at the camp, and Mrs. McBride wants me for a companion for Sallie.  We are planning to do a lot of reading together.  We are going to read all of the books for next year’s English and sociology.  The Professor said it would be a great help if we would get our reading finished in the summer; and it’s so much easier to remember it if we read together and talk it over.

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