o pass
or BUST. So you may expect to hear from me next, whole and happy and
free from conditions, or in fragments.

I will write a respectable letter when it's over. Tonight I have a
pressing engagement with the Ablative Absolute.

Yours--in evident haste
J. A.

26th March

Mr. D.-L.-L. Smith,

SIR: You never answer any questions; you never show the slightest
interest in anything I do. You are probably the horridest one of all
those horrid Trustees, and the reason you are educating me is, not
because you care a bit about me, but from a sense of Duty.

I don't know a single thing about you. I don't even know your name.
It is very uninspiring writing to a Thing. I haven't a doubt but that
you throw my letters into the waste-basket without reading them.
Hereafter I shall write only about work.

My re-examinations in Latin and geometry came last week. I passed them
both and am now free from conditions.

Yours truly,
Jerusha Abbott

2nd April

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

I am a BEAST.

Please forget about that dreadful letter I sent you last week--I was
feeling terribly lonely and miserable and sore-throaty the night I
wrote. I didn't know it, but I was just sickening for tonsillitis and
grippe and lots of things mixed. I'm in the infirmary now, and have
been here for six days; this is the first time they would let me sit up
and have a pen and paper. The head nurse is very bossy. But I've been
thinking about it all the time and I shan't get well until you forgive
me.

Here is a picture of the way I look, with a bandage tied around my head
in rabbit's ears.

Doesn't that arouse your sympathy? I am having sublingual gland
swelling. And I've been studying physiology all the year without ever
hearing of sublingual glands. How futile a thing is education!

I can't write any more; I get rather shaky when I sit up too long.
Please forgive me for being impertinent and ungrateful. I was badly
brought up.

Yours with love,
Judy Abbott

THE INFIRMARY
4th April

Dearest Daddy-Long-Legs,

Yesterday evening just towards dark, when