“I wish you’d let Joy come up here. I’d take her boating and riding, and up to Ripton, and down to the swamp, and everything, and try to make up.
“I don’t suppose you will ever care anything more about me; but I wish you’d please to excuse me and forgive me.
“Your affectionate niece,
”Gypsy.
“P. S.—Winnie’s cat has the cunningest little set of kittens you ever saw. They’re all blind, and they have such funny paws.”
Transcriber’s Notes
1. Punctuation has been normalized to contemporary standards.
2. Frontispiece relocated to after title page.