P. S. Don’t forget to answer my question. If you don’t want the
trouble of writing, have your secretary telegraph. He can just say:
Mr. Smith is quite bald,
or
Mr. Smith is not bald,
or
Mr. Smith has white hair.
And you can deduct the twenty-five cents out of my allowance.
Good-by till January--and a merry Christmas!
Toward the end of
the Christmas vacation.
Exact date unknown.
_Dear Daddy-Long-Legs_,
Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower
is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as
pop-corn. It’s late afternoon--the sun is just setting (a cold
yellow color) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my
window seat using the last light to write to you.
Your five gold pieces were a surprise! I’m not used to receiving
Christmas presents. You have already given me such lots of
things--everything I have, you know--that I don’t quite feel that I
deserve extras. But I like them just the same. Do you want to know
what I bought with my money?
I. A silver watch in a leather case to wear on my wrist and get me
to recitations on time.