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                                                                  Tuesday

    They are organizing the freshman basketball team and there's just a chance that I shall make it. I'm little of course, but terribly quick and wiry and tough. While the others are jopping about in the air, I can dodge under their feet and grab the ball. It's load of fun practicing ー out in the athletic field in the afternoon with the trees all red and yellow and the air full of the smell of burning leaves, and everybody laughing and shouting. These are the happiest girls I ever saw ー and I am the happiest of all !

   I meant to write a long letter and tell you all the things I'm learning ( Mrs. Lippett said you wanted to know ) but 7th hour has just rung, and in ten minutes I'm due at the athletic field in gymnasium clothes. Don't you hope I'll make the team ?

                                                               Yours always,
                                                                 JERUSHA ABBOTT 

   P.S (9 o'clock.)

   Sallie McBride just poked her head in at mydoor.
This is what she said:
   " I'm so homesick that I simply can't stand it. Do you feel that way ? "
    I smiled a little and said no, I thought I could pull through. At least homesickness is one disease that I've escaped ! I never heard of anybody being asylum-sick, did you ?


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