DADDY-LONG-LEGS (14)

DADDY-LONG-LEGS (14)


   Before leaving yesterday morning, Mrs. Lippett and I had a very serious talk. She told me how to behave all the rest of my life, and especially how to behave toward the kind gentleman who is doing so much for me. I must take care to be Very Respectful.

  But how can one be very respectful to a person who wishes  to  be  called John Smith ?  Why couldn't you have picked out a name with a little personality ? I might as well write letters to Dear Hitching-Post or Dear Clothes-Pole.

  I have been thinking about you a great deal this summer ; having somebody take an interest in me after all these years make me feel as though I had found a sort of family. It seems as though I belonged to somebody now, and it's a very comfortable sensation. I must say, however, that when I think about you, my imagination has very little to work upon. There are just three things that I know:

1. You are tall.
2. You are rich.
3. You hate girls.


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