A LETTER FROM PAGE ALLISON TO THE TUCKER TWINS
_Bracken, Va._
_Milton P. O._
MY DEAREST TWEEDLES:
I am sending you letters from Annie and from Sleepy. I
am awfully excited about Sleepy. He seems to be wide
awake. Father says he will come through the war and be
a distinguished person of some sort, he believes. I
think Annie's letter is awfully interesting. Isn't it
fun for old Sir Arthur Ponsonby Pore to have won the
love of the Lady Annie by swearing? I know your father
will die laughing over it.
I am up to my neck with Miss Pinkie Davis in the
house, getting some sewing done so I won't have to be
worried with shirt-waists and things when we get to
New York. Mammy Susan is still miffed with me for
going, and I feel awfully bad about it. Isn't it great
that Mary can go, too? Do you reckon we'll see Jessie
Wilcox in New York? Not if she sees us first, I fancy!
Four girls in a flat and that flat not so very swell
wouldn't appeal to Miss Wilcox, I think.
Father is giving iron tonics right and left, and has
made up a gallon of pump water with a beautiful pink
vegetable dye in it for Sally Winn so she won't have
to die before he gets back. Poor Joe Winn is very sad
that I did not let him know you were here on the last
trip. I really forgot to do it. We were having such a
wildly exciting time making our plans for New York
that poor Joe never came into my head.
It is so splendid that Father is going, too. If these
people will only stay well until he can get started,
then they can be sick all they want and have a doctor
over from the crossing. There is a perfectly good
doctor there, that is, a perfectly good doctor if one
is prepared for death!
Good-by! I must stop and help Miss Pinkie. How I do
hate to sew! To think in a few days almost I'll be IN
NEW YORK WITH THE TUCKER TWINS.
Your best friend,
PAGE ALLISON.
THE END
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Transcriber's Notes:
Varied hyphenation was retained. This includes cart-wheels and
cartwheels. Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page 82, "squshy" changed to "squishy" (later into squishy)
Page 86, "Shereton" changed to "Sheraton" (great old Sheraton sideboard)
Page 260, word "have" inserted into text (She would have none)
Illustration after page 282, "MAMY" changed to "MAMMY" (MAMMY SUSAN,
HOWEVER, HAD HER)
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