American messenger . by way of herletters; for Hilda was a wonderful let-ter writer, and once a week the classwas to send her a round-robin letter,and she was to send to the class a letterfur all, detailing her adventures for theweek; and all the letters—theirs and hers—were to be kept, and later bound, foruther girls in interior towns to enjoy. Try this plan yourself, even if you arenot going away, just to see how muchyou can put into the every-day life thatis worth writing about, and how muchyou can get out of it for the benefit ofuther people. But, to get back to our story: Noneof the girls
American messenger . by way of herletters; for Hilda was a wonderful let-ter writer, and once a week the classwas to send her a round-robin letter,and she was to send to the class a letterfur all, detailing her adventures for theweek; and all the letters—theirs and hers—were to be kept, and later bound, foruther girls in interior towns to enjoy. Try this plan yourself, even if you arenot going away, just to see how muchyou can put into the every-day life thatis worth writing about, and how muchyou can get out of it for the benefit ofuther people. But, to get back to our story: Noneof the girls quite wanted to speak fora moment, for fear of the break in theirown voices; and yet they did want tocomfort Hilda, and that first theme inthe Story-Telling Week had grippedtheir little hearts as the true, the good,the pure, the beautiful always sinks intoa real girls real heart—even when shepretends not to care, for fear some-one will know the real depth of her realemotions. Girls — of all ages — like to. OX realize what it meant to her; but sup-pose you just shut your eyes now andsee the panorama as Hilda had seen itfor days, weeks and months—each hourbringing it a little nearer. First, thetrip itself in a parlor car by day and asleeping car by night—for Uncle Montnever did anything by halves; and Hil-da had never been in anything but aday coach, and that only twice in herlife! Then, and perhaps this weighedmore than even Hilda knew, she was tohave an entire year away from school,with its home work, report cards, tests,and examinations; but, in their steadthere were to be concerts, lectures, vis-its to art galleries, museums, the zoo,places of wonder and of historic inter-est, the great stores, bridges, ferries, sub-ways, tubes, elevated, Little Italy,and all the fairy-tale places and peopleof which she had ever heard or readabout in New York! Again, she was to go on short tripswith Uncle Mont and Aunt Alice toWashington, Florida, perhaps to Boston,and a
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