10月10日

親愛(ài)的長(zhǎng)腿叔叔：

大學(xué)里真正麻煩的，是大家都認(rèn)為你應(yīng)該懂得一些你根本沒(méi)學(xué)過(guò)的東西。有時(shí)真是挺讓人煩惱的，不過(guò)現(xiàn)在只要女孩們提到我不懂的事，我就不說(shuō)話，回去查查字典。

我在第一天就犯了個(gè)嚴(yán)重的錯(cuò)誤，有人提到麥特林克，而我問(wèn)她是不是個(gè)新生。這個(gè)笑話傳遍了整所大學(xué)。還好，我在課堂上表現(xiàn)得跟大家一樣聰明，甚至比一些人還要好。

莎麗·麥克白幫我在高年級(jí)生舉辦的拍賣(mài)會(huì)上挑了幾件家具。她從小到大都在家住，對(duì)于家具擺飾頗有見(jiàn)地。如果您這輩子從沒(méi)擁有超過(guò)5毛錢(qián)，您是很難體會(huì)那種購(gòu)物的樂(lè)趣的——用一張真的5元鈔票去買(mǎi)東西，還能找些零錢(qián)回來(lái)！我向您保證，親愛(ài)的叔叔，我對(duì)您給的零用錢(qián)真的心存感激。

莎麗算是全世界最好的人了，而茱莉亞·平萊頓則相反。注冊(cè)組安排的室友組合真是奇怪透了。莎麗覺(jué)得每件事都很有趣，連考試不及格也包括在內(nèi)。而茱莉亞則覺(jué)得每件事都很煩人，她從未試著友善一些。她相信如果您是平萊頓家族的人，您毋庸置疑一定可以上天堂的。茱莉亞跟我是天生的敵人。

現(xiàn)在您一定等不及要聽(tīng)聽(tīng)我修了哪些課吧？

拉丁文：第二次迦太基戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)。昨晚，漢尼拔和他的部隊(duì)在特?fù)煳髅字Z湖駐扎。他們?cè)诹_馬人周圍布下埋伏。凌晨4點(diǎn)，他們打了一仗，羅馬人撤退了。

法文：讀了24頁(yè)的《三個(gè)火槍手》，學(xué)了第三組不規(guī)則動(dòng)詞的變化。

幾何學(xué)：圓柱體學(xué)完了，正在學(xué)圓錐體。

英文：學(xué)習(xí)表達(dá)。我的表達(dá)日漸清晰、簡(jiǎn)潔。

生理學(xué)：進(jìn)行到消化系統(tǒng)，下次學(xué)膽和胰。

您正在受教育的，喬若莎·亞伯特

10 th October

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

The trouble with college is that you are expected to know such a lot of things you've never learned. It's very embarrassing at times.But now, when the girls talk about things that I never heard of, I just keep still and look them up in the encyclopedia.

I made an awful mistake the first day. Somebody mentioned Maurice Maeterlinck, and I asked if she was a Freshman.That joke has gone all over college.But anyway, I'm just as bright in class as any of the others-and brighter than some of them!

Sallie McBride helped me choose the things at the Senior auction. She has lived in a house all her life and knows about furnishing.You can't imagine what fun it is to shop and pay with a real five-dollar bill and get some change-when you've never had more than a few cents in your life.I assure you, Daddy dear, I do appreciate that allowance.

Sallie is the most entertaining person in the world-and Julia Rutledge Pendleton the least so. It's queer what a mixture the registrar can make in the matter of room-mates.Sallie thinks everything is funny-even flunking-and Julia is bored at everything.She never makes the slightest effort to be amiable.She believes that if you are a Pendleton, that fact alone admits you to heaven without any further examination.Julia and I were born to be enemies.

And now I suppose you've been waiting very impatiently to hear what I am learning?

I. Latin:Second Punic War.Hannibal and his forces pitched camp at Lake Trasimenus last night.They prepared an ambuscade for the Romans, and a battle took place at the fourth watch this morning.Romans in retreat.

II. French:24 pages of the Three Musketeers and third conjugation, irregular verbs.

III. Geometry:Finished cylinders;now doing cones.

IV. English:Studying exposition.My style improves daily in clearness and brevity.

V. Physiology:Reached the digestive system.Bile and the pancreas next time.

Yours, on the way to being educated, Jerusha Abbott