Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-25
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The Hired Man,

Clalre, Darllng~
cts. after ten O'Clock at night and
in the morning in New York, but I
can't wait another minute to write to
YOU. The funniest thing has happen
letter. y
II haven't written to you since that.
letter with the crazy postscript, like
q nightcap. on it. Well. instead OF
being .deported from Happy House,
bag and baggage, I seem to become
more Of a fixture, eacn day. And each
more to think I belong here. Just SO
often have to shake myself and say
don't forget you're pretending
And. I scarcely dare write this-I be-
lieve they are all growing a little,
wee bit fond. Of me-the real me OF
course Webb loved me at first sight
and SO did old Jonathan-he's a dear!
And precious little Aunt Milly, VINO
is getting the prettiest pink in her
G 1an,eh' ann aaa Is can an nr laufh a. nov now, h. truly avsy
her first washcloth. she wants me
withsher all the time. I can tell, by
the way she looks at me. And I an
really growing embarrassed. to say
nothing of fat, with the good things
B'lindy cooks and If you knew
B'lindy. you'd understand that that is
her way Of showing sentiment. But
as to Aunt Sabrina--1 am not so
sure!
Things have changed since 1 wrote
to you-there was All awful clashing
of wills in Happy House and Aunt Sa-
brina came out OF the bottom and
since then she has an air Of having
washed her hands Of me. And she's
stopped the lessons on Leavitts, too,
just when we'd gotten to Ezekiel. But
I've learned more than she wanted
me to-I've found out about tho
mystery, as I wrote before, on.y I
! may-because it's about her grand
father!
Il believe in my last letter I said.
too, that I hated Happy House. Well,
+ don't believe I do. It's q funny
place-just when you think its dismal
and prisony you see something you
Just, love-like one Of Jonathan's rose
ramblers. all pinky, climbing up an
old gray tree trunk. I can't explain
the whole place that's spooky. as
though 1t was something human ana
wanted me! Isn't that q silly. no
ton. especially when I'm, jest here
acting Anne's part * that she can
igo off to Russia?
sand this whole village Is t~St like
Happy House-it is proudly clinging
to what 1t hos been in the past and
defying the advance of the new things
Of the present. When I walk along
the main street s(anu only street) of
the village I stare AZ the ,shutip
houses. for, bless me, no n would
dream OF opening my blinds. and ]
wonder, II there's a handicapped
table in every one. of those best-par-
Tors and a family Bible on every table
filled With pages Of ancestors. I sup
pose I'm wickedly ,disrespectful-
! when / see my dear Dad, and oh. how
~ want. want NanAe to zee him-I shall
tell hin, that now l know he didn't
bring me UP right.
n AM a ehonery' member Of Z club
.-And noy I'm approaching the excit.
ling part Of my letter. It ID called
tCove's Club and has rules that forbid
my swearing, taking back smoking,
LYING, stealing BIRDS eggs, hurting
Iigft land Iic1e) every enemy 90 tl.e
CLUB (which. aiAs, seem to- % most
liz niothers) Kill pirates and defend
my country. Isn't that heavenly II
meets Whenever LIZ HopWnrtha haD ia
clean the smeetiAs house which Il d.
ways on Mondays and AFTER there's
Ieoctal. And 20 att6nd FthG m0otiuts
lyou have TO slide down thirty feet 50l
bank 20 what i .known sarohi3d. iieiS
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