J：A perfectly awful day The first Monday of every month Every floor scrubbed Every chair dusted A perfectly awful day Every bed without a wrinkle Eevery hair combed on 97 orphans Poor Jerusha Abbot Has to bear the brunt of it all Poor Jerusha Abbot The oldest orphan in the John Grier home
J: A perfectly awful day The trustees come to visit Taking tea breaks Having reports written They hurry away in the night For houses in the city And I watch them with 97 orphans Poor Jerusha Abbot Never breaking free of this place Poor Jerusha Abbot The oldest orphan in the John Grier Home
J: Little Tommy Dylan comes singing up the stairs (As Tommy Dylan) Jerusha Abbot you are wanted In the office and you'd better hurry up (As Jerusha) Who wants me? (As Tommy Dylan) Mrs.Libbot in the office And I think she's really mad (As Jerusha) Where did I go wrong? Were the sandwiches not thin enough? Were there shells in the nut cakes? Where did I go wrong? Did a lady visitor see the hole in Susy Hawthorne's stocking?
J: I hurry to the office the long lower hall is quite dark One last Trustee is leaving through the big front door his arm raises waving to the automobile in the drive A perfectly awful day A silhouetted figure Tall and gangle Shrouded in the darkness I cannot see his face But the headlights in the driveway Cast a shadow sharp against the wall Looking like a daddy long legs The biggest one that I have ever seen A creeping crawling daddy long legs And it makes me laugh On this awful day Me, Jerusha Abbot The oldest orphan in the John Grier Home (3:20) 2019-4-26
J: Mrs.Lippett. I run down the corridor. I step into the office. Mrs Lippett smiles at me. Strange. She asks me to sit. Stranger still. She hands me a letter. Strangest of all. Who's it from. Did you not notice the gentleman who has just gone? The spidery...I mean tall man. The letter is from him. Open it and be grateful for the rare good fortune that has befallen you. Thank you, Mrs. Lippett.
J: For Miss Abbott. 351 Riverside Drive, Manhattan the further education of Miss Jerusha Abbott by Mr. Jone Smith 9 point plan. Further education. One. Owing to the exceptional talent that Miss Abbott has shown in her original and amusing essays. Mr. Smith has decided to send her to college. Two. It is Mr. Smith's plan that Miss Abbott should educate herself to become a writer. Three. Miss Abbott's board and tuition will be paid directly to the college. Four. She will receive in addtion during her four years of study a monthly allowance of thirty-five dollars. This will ensure an equality with her fellow students. Five Miss Abbott must write a letter of acknowledgment to Mr. Smith once a month. Not thanks. Thanks must never be mentioned. Six Mr. Smith's name is obviously not Mr. Smith. But he prefers to remain unknown. To Miss Abbott he will never be anything but Mr.Smith.
J: Who is that man? Who has designed this uncommon plan to educate Jerusha. However best he can. How can this be? Who would take on this uncertainty to educate Jerusha. Who in heavens name is he. I guess I'll nerver know him. I guess I'll never even learn his name. These are his orders. This is his game. I guess I'll never know him. You mustn't know your betters. But he will know me in letters.
J: Seven Miss Abbott's letter must tell the progress of her studies and the details of her daily life. Such a letters she would write her family if she have one. Eight the reason for the letters is to foster Miss Abbott's facility in literary expression. Nine. Mr. Smith will never answer Miss Abbott's letters nor take the slightest notice of them. He detests letter-writing and above all does not wish Miss Abbott to become a burden.
J: So though I might. Thank him twice each and every night. He will never answer. No Mr. Smith will never write. I guess I'll never know him. Though I am rather curious to see. What kind of man would educate me? I guess I'll nver know him. You mustn't know your better. But he will know me in letters. (7:50) 2019-6-30
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