r I may be the child
of a Russian exile and belong by rights in a Siberian prison, or maybe
I'm a Gipsy--I think perhaps I am. I have a very WANDERING spirit,
though I haven't as yet had much chance to develop it.

Do you know about that one scandalous blot in my career the time I ran
away from the asylum because they punished me for stealing cookies?
It's down in the books free for any Trustee to read. But really,
Daddy, what could you expect? When you put a hungry little nine-year
girl in the pantry scouring knives, with the cookie jar at her elbow,
and go off and leave her alone; and then suddenly pop in again,
wouldn't you expect to find her a bit crumby? And then when you jerk
her by the elbow and box her ears, and make her leave the table when
the pudding comes, and tell all the other children that it's because
she's a thief, wouldn't you expect her to run away?

I only ran four miles. They caught me and brought me back; and every
day for a week I was tied, like a naughty puppy, to a stake in the back
yard while the other children were out at recess.

Oh, dear! There's the chapel bell, and after chapel I have a committee
meeting. I'm sorry because I meant to write you a very entertaining
letter this time.

Auf wiedersehen
Cher Daddy,
Pax tibi!
Judy

PS. There's one thing I'm perfectly sure of I'm not a Chinaman.

4th February

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

Jimmie McBride has sent me a Princeton banner as big as one end of the
room; I am very grateful to him for remembering me, but I don't know
what on earth to do with it. Sallie and Julia won't let me hang it up;
our room this year is furnished in red, and you can imagine what an
effect we'd have if I added orange and black. But it's such nice,
warm, thick felt, I hate to waste it. Would it be very improper to
have it made into a bath robe? My old one shrank when it was washed.

I've entirely omitted of late telling you what I am learning, but
though you might not imagine it from my letters, my time is exclusively
occupied with study. It's a very bewildering matter to get educated in
five branches at once.

'The test of true scholarship,' says Chemistry Professor, 'is a
painstaking passion for detail.'

'Be careful not to keep your eyes