Daddy-Long-Legs 키다리 아저씨 2

Daddy-Long-Legs 키다리 아저씨 1권
Daddy-Long-Legs 키다리 아저씨 2권

Tuesday.
They are organizing the Freshman basket-ball team and there’s just a chance that I shall get in it. I’m little of course, but terribly quick and wiry and tough. While the others are hopping about in the air, I can dodge under their feet and grab the ball. It’s loads of fun practising?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?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 get in the team?
Yours always,
JERUSHA ABBOTT.

This isn’t much of a letter; I meant to have written a lot?but I’ve been hemming four window curtains and three porti?res (I’m glad you can’t see the length of the stitches), and polishing a brass desk set with tooth powder (very uphill work) and sawing off picture wire with manicure scissors, and unpacking four boxes of books, and putting away two trunkfuls of clothes (it doesn’t seem believable that Jerusha Abbott owns two trunks full of clothes, but she does!) and welcoming back fifty dear friends in between.
Opening day is a joyous occasion!
Good night, Daddy dear, and don’t be annoyed because your chick is wanting to scratch for herself. She’s growing up into an awfully energetic little hen?with a very determined cluck and lots of beautiful feathers (all due to you).
Affectionately,