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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: October 25th. Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, I 've made the basket-ball team and you ought to see the bruise on my left shoulder. It's blue and mahogany with little streaks of orange. Julia Pendleton tried for the team, but she did n't make it. Hooray You see what a mean disposition I have. College gets nicer and nicer. I like the girls and the teachers and the classes and the campus and the things to eat. We have ice-cream twice a week and we never have corn-meal mush. You only wanted to hear from me once a month, did n't you ? And I 've been peppering you with letters every few days Bat I 've been so excited about all these new adventures that I must talk to somebody; and you 're the only one I know. Please excuse my exuberance; I'll settle pretty soon. If my letters bore you, you can always toss them into the waste-basket I promise not to write another till the mid die of November. Yours most loquaciously, Judy Abbott. chapter{{Section 4November Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, Listen to what I 've learned to-day: The area of the convex surface of the frustum of a regular pyramid is half the product of the sum of the perimeters of its bases by the altitude of either of its trapezoids. It does n't sound true, but it is ? I can prove it You 've never heard about my clothes, have you, Daddy? Six dresses, all new and beautiful and bought for me ? not handed down from somebody bigger. Perhaps you don't realize what a climax that marks in the career of an orphan? You gave them to me, and I am very, very, very much obliged. It's a fine thing1 to beeducated ? but nothing compared to the dizzying experience of owning six new dresses. Miss Pritchard who is on the visiting committee picked them out ? not Mrs. Lippett, thank goodness. I have an evening dress, pink mull over...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217778756 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217778755 |
| Weight | 0.44 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $20.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 128 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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