South Hadley, Mass.
April 29, 1908.
Dear Sister:-
I am taking a day off to-day to study even though it is such a nice day. This is no place to study in around here. It seems much more like a summer resort. But with two quizzes - one Fri. & one Sat & twenty awful Math problems to have done before Sat. I think I had better study to-day. Miss Trueblood is going to be away to-morrow so I don't have anything until 2:55. Isn't that great? At 11:45 I am going out rowing. One of the girls is going to teach me how. Now don't worry about me for you know the lake is only "Knee deep, knee deep" as the frogs say.
I had such a fine surprise yesterday. I stayed up at lab. longer than I needed to just because I wanted to finish something. When I got down to Wilder the girls said that I had had company so I went up to my room supposing that they had gone. Well when I opened the door, the room seemed full of girls. In reality there were only five - Margaret, Alice, Corinne, Esther Johnson & Katherine (I can't spell her last name but she spent a Sunday here with Olive last fall.) They had to go at 5:30 so I hardly saw them at all. My! But Esther has grown. I should think she was larger than I. She brought me some daffodils. She didn't know they were my class flower until after she got here. I went up to the car with them & came back & played ball for a while before dinner. After dinner some of us played "Charades" in the parlour. Then I tried spinning a top for a while (unsuccessfully) & came up & studied.
Mon. at 4:45 I went to walk around the upper lake. We found some dear little anenomies [sic] - the first I ever remember finding. We found a cute little path & followed it a little way. It led on to a car-road so we went on & got lost - not very seriously though for we found ourselves soon enough so we got dressed & down to dinner on time. It is marvellous [sic] though how you can take three steps out of your way & loose [sic] sight of everything. We had a big spread that night for three birthdays. We had ice-cream & a layer cake only the ice-cream didn't come & Lucy Smith had to go after it.
I got Bertha to help me make out my schedule She finally thought that I had better take Hist. next year instead of Bible for she thought that was the harder& the way we made out the program my Junior year will not be easy to say the least with Math, Lab, Physics, Ger. & whatever else I have. I took the liberty to go against your advice. I may wish I hadn't. I will enclose my schedule & you can see of it isn't nice.
One of your classmates was at dinner in Wilder the other night - Betty Demarest.
I walked up to Mary Lyon this A.M. with Ruth. She can make her top spin in two ways. I don't know when they spin out in public. Not this week I guess. I wouldn't wonder how things are at home. Daffodils & crocuses have been out some little time here & you can fairly see the leaves on the trees grow. They are mowing this lawn to-day.
I must stop & do Math.
With much love,
Molly.