Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

We beat the Freshmen at basket ball yesterday. Of course we\'re pleased--
but oh, if we could only beat the juniors! I\'d be willing to be black
and blue all over and stay in bed a week in a witch-hazel compress.

Sallie has invited me to spend the Christmas vacation with her.
She lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Wasn\'t it nice of her?
I shall love to go. I\'ve never been in a private family in my life,
except at Lock Willow, and the Semples were grown-up and old and
don\'t count. But the McBrides have a houseful of children (anyway two
or three) and a mother and father and grandmother, and an Angora cat.
It\'s a perfectly complete family! Packing your trunk and going
a............