親愛的長腿叔叔：

    今天真高興！我考完了最後一科―生理學。接下來呢：

    到農場去住三個月！

    我不知道農場是什麼樣子的。從來沒有去過農場，甚至可以說從沒看見過農場(除了隔著汽車玻璃)，但我知道，我一定會喜歡它的，我也會喜歡自由的感覺。

    到現在，我也還不習慣格利爾之家以外的地方。一想到這點，就感到有點害怕。我感覺我似乎得跑快一點，再快一點，邊跑邊回頭張望，看看李培太太是否在後面追趕，伸出雙臂要抓我回去。

    這個夏天我對誰都不用顧忌了。對不對？

    你徒有其名的權威嚇不了我，你離我太遠了，對我沒有傷害。對我來說，李培太太已經永遠死去。森普爾夫婦不會監督我的品行吧？我想不會。我已長大成人了！萬歲！

    就寫這些吧，我得去收拾行李，一個衣箱，還有三個盒子裝著茶壺、盤子、靠墊、書籍。

永遠是你的朱蒂

6月9日

附記：這是我的生理科考卷？你覺得你會通過嗎？

June 9th

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

    Happy day!  I’ve just finished my last examination―physiology.  And now:

     Three months on a farm!

     I don’t know what kind of a thing a farm is.  I’ve never been o one n my life.  I’ve never even looked at one (except from the car window), but I know I’m going to love it, and I’m going to love being free.

     I am not used even yet to being outside the John Grier Home.  Whenever I think of it excited little thrills chase up and down my back.  I feel as though I must run faster and faster and keep looking over my sho7ulder to make sure that Mrs. Lippett isn’t after me with her arm stretched out to grab me back.

    I don’t have to mind anyone this summer do I? 

     Your nominal authority doesn’t annoy me in the least; you are too far away to do any harm.  Mrs. Lippett is dead forever, so far as I am concerned, and the Semples aren’t expected to overlook my moral welfare, are they?  No, I am sure not.  I am entirely grown up.  Hurrah!

     I leave you now to pack a trunk, and three boxes of teakettles and dishes and sofa cushions and books.

Yours ever,

Judy

PS.  Here is my physiology exam.  Do you think you could have passed?