長腿叔叔先生：

    親愛的先生，今收到李培太太來信。她希望我目前品學兼優，並要我假期回孤兒院工作，以維持生活直到學校開學，因為我大概沒有其他地方可去。

    我恨死格利爾之家。

    我寧願死也不願回去。

你最忠實的潔魯莎˙史博特

5月27日

May 27th

Daddy-Long-legs, Esq.

     Dear Sir:  I am in receipt of a letter form Mrs. Lippett.  She hopes that I am doing well in deportment and studies.  Since I probably have no place to go this summer, she will let me come back to the saylum and work for my board until college opens

     I HATE THE JOHN GRIER HOOME.

I’d rather die than go back.

Yours most truthfully,

Jerusha Abbott