Dear Jane:-I was surprised to know you were at home when I got your letter. Your father's coming and goings are variable, I guess.
Had a letter yesterday or someday from Lucy with pretty pictures enclosed. Probably you did too. My report card this time was an unbroken line. Miss Morse relented, other things being equal. What was yours this time?
I didn't expect the dried-up-pea to be so lenient after I nearly blew her to bits with sodium nitrate.
I got home to find Jo had a boat launched on little pond and I've lived in it most of the time. I caught a whopping pickerel there one day. Twelve feet if it was a foot long. When I arrived Thursday night I found that Mr. Squire had been here and gone Thursday noon. I lamented the fact that I wasn't here to see him. He showed up again Friday morning. Got as far as Worcester and decided to come back. He's in England now. Peg let me write some steamer letters to him. He has his young brother with him. Wish I could have written him a letter or two.
I'm awfully afraid from Ruby's account of goings on at Lordship that you and I made no lasting impression though she did say that poor Curt got up courage to ask after both of us equally. Probably didn't dare discriminate.
The only one I care to ask after is Muriel's Daniel Webster. You were awfully nice to Muriel while she was down to Ruby's. Hope you'll forgive my adverse criticisms of past treatment of her. I kept wondering if it was going dreadfully against the grain. You may be glad to know that I've had my hat retrieved since my advent in Kingston.
No I haven't been to the beach with Miss Foss yet. I wrote to her the other day and she hasn't answered yet. I'm wild. Peg is going to see Edith next Monday. She asked me to come too but I feel as if I could be of more practical use in the world at home. I shall surely have to write to Margaret Plant to pay for that. I am so glad she penetrated my "veneer of cheap paint."
Had a letter from Maude recently. She is in Iowa for the summer. Margretta sent me a postal when I first got home. You don't know her address, do you?
I'm crazy to get back to 28 Wilder. Can't hardly wait.
Remember me to Aunt Margaret and Ella and your father and write again soon for I'm selfish enough to enjoy getting what I don't like to write.
Lovingly -
Cricket.[Cricket and Jane were roommates in 28 Wilder in the 1907-1908 academic year at Mount Holyoke, according to the dorm directory of that year.]