1. However, Daddy, don't take this new affection for the J.G.H. too literally.

2. We do arrive fast in America!

3. Don't you think it would be interesting if you really could read the story of your life--written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author?

4. Our heads begin to nod at nine o'clock, and by nine-thirty the pen drops from our nerveless grasp.

5. I have quite a feeling of tenderness for it as I look back through a haze of four years.

6. It gives me a sort of vantage point from which to stand aside and look at life.

Exercise 5. Say it in Ukrainian.

1. Life is monotonous enough at best; you have to eat and sleep about so often. But imagine how deadly monotonous it would be if nothing unexpected could happen between meals.

2. I know lots of girls (Julia, for instance) who never know that they are happy. They are so accustomed to the feeling that their senses are deadened to it; but as for me – I am perfectly sure every moment of my life that I am happy. And I'm going to keep on being, no matter what unpleasant things turn up. I'm going to regard them (even toothaches) as interesting experiences, and be glad to know what they feel like.

3. Master Jervie and that editor man were right; you are most convincing when you write about the things you know. And this time it is about something that I do know – exhaustively. Guess where it's laid? In the John Grier Home! And it's good, Daddy, I actually believe it is – just about the tiny little things that happened every day.

4. I wish you were here to climb the hills with me. I am missing you dreadfully, Jervie dear, but it's a happy kind of missing; we'll be together soon. We belong to each other now really and truly, no make-believe. Doesn't it seem queer for me to belong to someone at last? It seems very, very sweet.

Exercise 6. Write a summary of what happened to Jerusha from 3^rd October to Thursday morning.

Exercise 7. Explain or comment on the following:

1. I never heard one word of real talk from the time we arrived until we left.

2. If you just want a thing hard enough and keep trying, you do get it in the end.

3. Isn’t it fun to work – or don’t you ever do it?

4. I am afraid I have a tendency to make over my ideas to match his!

5. You…will look at it from a wordly point of view and not just a sympathetic human point of view.

Exercise 8. Describe Judy’s meeting Daddy-Long-Legs.

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