DADDY-LONG-LEGS (1)

DADDY-LONG-LEGS (1)

Blue Wednesday


The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day ー a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste.

Every floor must be spotless, every chair dustless, and every bed without a wrinkle.

Ninety-seven squirming little orphans must be scrached and combed and bottoned into freshly starched ginghams ; and all ninety-seven reminded of their manners, and told to say, " Yes, sir, " " No, sir, " whenever a Trustee spoke.
※Trustee 評議員

It was a distressing time ; and poor Jerusha Abbott, being the oldest orphan, had to bear the burnt of it.

But this particular Wednesday, like its predecessors, finally dragged itself to a close.

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よく知られた「足長おじさん」(Jean Webster 1876-1916) ですが、その最初の章及び最初の手紙のやりとりをお出ししてみたいと思います。
若干みなれない表現も出てくるかと思いますが、ひとつひとつは場面に応じて想像できるかと思います。
たくまいい孤児の話をつい最近耳にしましたので、思いつきですみませんが。