親愛的長腿叔叔：

    我在學寫拉丁語作文。我一直在努力用功讀，還要繼續讀下去。我就快要結束了。下星期三第七節課補考。我一定安然無恙，愉快地擺脫了不及格，不然就已經支離破碎了。

    考完試後我會寫封像樣的信給你。今晚我要認真學習拉丁語的奪格絕對句。匆匆。

朱蒂

3月15日

The Ides[{古羅馬曆}三月、五月、七月、十月的十五日及其他月份的十三。] of March

Dear D. L. L.,

     I am studying Latin prose composition.  I have been studying it.  I shall be studying it.  I shall be about to have been studying it.  My reexamination comes the 7^th hour next Tuesday, and I am going to pass or BUST.  So you may expect to hear from me next, whole and happy and free from conditions[{美}有補考資格的不及格分數。], or in fragments.

     I will rite a respectable letter when it’s over.  Tonight I have a pressing engagement with the Ablative Absolute.

Yours―in evident haste,

J.A. 

親愛的長腿叔叔史密斯先生：

     先生：你從不回答任何問題，對我的一切漠然處之。你可能是世界上所有可惡的理事中最可惡的一個。你讓我受教育，全然出於一種責任感，決無半點關懷之情。

     我對你一無所知，連你的姓名都不知道。寫信給你一件東西，一點意思都沒有。我認定你把我的信原封不動地扔進垃圾桶。今後，我只寫我的學習情況，再也不談其他事情了。

     上星期考過拉丁語和幾何。兩科都及格，不用補考。

 潔魯莎•艾博特敬啟

3月26日

March 26th

Mr. D. L. L. Smith,

     Sir:  You never answer any questions; you never show the slightest interest in anything I do.  You are probably the horridest one of all those horrid trustees, and the reason you are education me is, bot because you care a bit about me, but from a sense of duty.

    I don’t know a single thing about you.  I don’t even know your name.  It is very uninspiring writing to a thing.  I haven’t doubt but that you throw my letters into the wastebasket without reading them.  Hereafter I shall write only about work.

     My reexaminations in Latin and geometry came last week.  I passed them both and am now free from conditions.

Yours truly,

Jerusha Abbott