Fannie.
Winnie to Ernestine.
Dear Ernestine:
We had the first meeting for this year at Miriam's last Friday evening, and the first thing we did was to go up to Miriam's room and read your letter. I read it out loud first, but that wasn't enough, and it passed from hand to hand, each one reading it for herself.
We had such a nice little meeting, and while we didn't talk quite so much as we did a year ago about fighting giants, I think we all felt that those we had been able to fight had made it easier for us to see and do our duties as they came to us.
After we had read your letter and our business meeting was over, we went down into Miriam's yard and had a regular frolic. It was a bright moonlight night, and we had games and told stories and old riddles and tried to make up new ones—but didn't succeed very well—and by and by Miriam's brother came out with an enormous watermelon on a great, big tray. It was a warm night—you know how warm it is sometimes here in September—and I don't know which we enjoyed most, eating the cool, refreshing fruit or snapping the seeds at each other.
We all miss you very much. Ralph still asks when you are coming back, and no one's paper dolls please him so much as yours did. Sometimes I feel very lonely without you, but Aunt Kitty says she is sure you will come to visit us some time, and that we are only twenty-four hours apart, which does not seem so very far, does it? So I shall look forward
Till we meet,
Winnie.