DADDY-LONG-LEGS (15)

DADDY-LONG-LEGS (15)


  I suppose I might call you Dear Mr. Girl-Hater. Only that's sort of insulting to me. Or Dear Mr,Rich-Man, but that's insulting to you, as though money were onlyimportant thing about you. Besides, being rich is such a very external quality. Maybe you won't stay rich all your life ; lots of veryvery clever men get smashed up in Wall Street. But at least you will stay tall all your life ! So I've decided to call you Dear Daddy-long-legs. I hope you won't mind. It's just a private pet name ー we won't tell Mrs. Lippett.

The ten o'crock bell is going to ring in two minutes. Our day is divided into sections by bells. We eat and sleep and study by bells. It's very enlivening ; I feel like a fire horse all of the time. There it goes ! Light out. Good night.

Observe with what precision I obey rules ー due to my training in the John Grier Home.

                                                                             Yours most respectfully,
                                                                                               JERUSHA ABBOTT

To Mr. Daddy-long-legs Smith


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