daddy long legs

Chapter 33

Dear Daddy Long Legs:
We walked into town today, but oh my!It was raining cats and dogs.Winter has to look like winter, it should snow instead of rain!
Julia's delightful uncle is here again this afternoon - with a 5lb box of chocolates.You see, living with Julia has its advantages.

He seemed to find it amusing to listen to the girls talk, so he missed a train on purpose so that he could have tea with us in the study.In order to get permission from the school, we spent a lot of effort.Visiting from a father or grandfather is hard enough, an uncle is even harder, and a brother or cousin is next to impossible.Julia had to swear in front of all the officials at the school that he was her uncle, and bring back the certificate from the notary office (I know some law).Still, I doubt that we'll have a good cup of tea once the Housemaster sees Uncle Jervie so young and handsome.

Anyway, we drank tea and ate sandwiches on brown bread and swiss cheese.Uncle Jervie made the sandwich, and he ate four of them himself.I told him I spent last summer at Rockwillow.So we chatted happily about the Samples, and the horse, and the cow, and the chicken.All the cattle he'd ever known were dead, except Glover.Poor Glover had been a calf the last time he had been back, and was very old now.

He asked if we still put the peanuts in the yellow pot, covered it with a blue plate, and put it under the sideboard.The situation is exactly as he said!He also asked me if there was a groundhog hole under the rocks in the night pasture - and there was!Last summer, Amasa had caught a big, fat gray marmot, which, by calculation, was the 25th generation grandson of the one that Master Jervie caught as a child.

I called him Master Jervie to his face, and he didn't mind a bit.Julia said she had never seen him so friendly—he was usually unapproachable.However, I think Julia doesn't understand strategy. I found that you must be smart when you get along with men. You can only touch them, or they will bite you.

We're reading the diary of Mary Basgoscheff, and it's astounding.You see: "Yesterday, disappointment overwhelmed my entire body and made me groan in pain. I was so out of control that I threw the restaurant clock into the ocean."

I wish I wasn't a genius.Because geniuses are annoying, they only damage furniture.

Oh my god!Why does it keep pouring down!I'm afraid we'll just have to swim to church tonight.

your forever judy
Saturday 6:30
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