[Some paragraph marks added for ease of reading.]Templeton, Mass,
May 27, 1906.Dear Lucy:-
I have just written to Linnie and so now it is case of "you next". I am sure I don't know what to write for I have forgotten what I have written. I haven't my studying done but am saving it lest Lucius should come. It is so rainy that I can't send him away from the door as I had intended to but am going to let him in for a short time and declaim all the time he is here on how much studying I have got to do. Well, the great deed is partly done. I carried the wonderful essay to Mr. B- Wed. morning to see if he approved of the unpolished edition. He did so I have set to work polishing and the thing written to the best of my ability is now ready for the powers that be to correct. I can already see Miss Clark's nose going up about a mile but I guess it will get down again.
To-morrow P.M. the Tennis Club gives a party & I want to go. As I have four lessons to get for Tuesday it makes it close work but I am going to endeavor to do it. Bessie has invited me. She has belonged to the Club just a week. She has got up several mornings & gone down on the half past six car so that she could play before school. She must want to play pretty badly.
We are going to have one of the college ivy songs to sing class day instead of singing our class song both then and graduation night. The last "Argus" is to go to press the last of this week. I am going to get someone to do part of my copying for me for I haven't time. Things seem to come in an awful bunch.
Lee Baker hasn't been to school for a week. I wonder if he is sick. Had I better go and see him? Did I tell you that Levi Greenwood had asked to exchange pictures with me? I am tickled half to death. Bessie and I saw him one morning when he was going off on the Worcester train. I am going to ask some of the boys in my Latin class to exchange banners with me. Won't it be fine if I can get a lot of banners to take to college?
I got a book out of the Library yesterday to read for my own enjoyment. You can imagine what a rare happening that is. It is the "Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation" so I am having a fine time with it. All the trouble is I want to read it all the time. You have heard of course the quotation ending "To see ourselves as others see us." The other day in Eng. Miss Clark told us that Burns wrote that after he had been to church and seen a louse on the lady's bonnet in front of him. Of course we laughed and then Cowee raised his hand and said very innocently that he thought that lice were so small one couldn't see them. That brought down the house.
(The evil hour is drawing nigh! I tremble through fear!) It has just poured all the P.M. and rained in showers this A.M. Auntie & I left the straight and narrow path and went over to the other church as the soldiers were to be there. I didn't suppose that they would have church outside but they were going to have a candidate clear from Maine and they didn't know where to send word to tell him not to come so they thought they had better let him come. I think most of the people went to hear for with the exception of those in the Relief Corps I saw almost no Unitarians. We were almost the only wicked ones.
The church was pretty full as it was. Mr. Smith preached a dandy sermon. We sat with Mrs. Scollay. You just ought to have seen Charlie usher us in. You would have thought he was somebody. Auntie thought it would please him if I sat beside him so I did. I think that the cushion must be rather thin, where he sat for he was hardly still a minute. Mrs. Scollay invited Miss Hagar and another lady to sit in the same pew so Charlie & I sat at the end. Mrs. Curtis warbled but didn't wobble very badly. There were quite a number of the G.A.R. there and I don't think I ever saw so many of the Sons of Veterans to-gether. Willie Hawks sat among them. I wonder if his father didn't have to work and so sent Willie to take his place. Mrs. Scollay told Auntie that Annie was going to have her vacation the first of July. She wanted it when the young people were at home.
Auntie & I were going to the woods this P.M. but as we had both taken baths this week we decided we wouldn't. There is almost nothing for flowers for Memorial Day. I am afraid this rain will spoil this honeysuckle & the lilies aren't quite out. I hope to have a lot of pansies. There [sic] are doing fine. Aren't you tickled over the little girl down at Cousin Minnie's I could hardly walk home sedately as becomes a Senior after I heard it. Friday the lightning struck the trees in front of the Maynards. The children over there have been having the measles but are over them now (Still in suspense) x x x x
x x x With love, Molly
The hour is past. I am safe.