for the exigencies of school life, seemed strangely extravagant and
out of place.

But I want to say right now, Mate, that if I stay here a thousand
years I'll never come to jerseys and eight-year-old hats! I am going
to subscribe to a good fashion paper, and at least keep within hailing
distance of the styles.

It is too warm to go down to the school yet so we are to spend a week
in the mountains before we start in for the fall term.

Dear Pa and Little Germany have been here twice in three hours but I
saw them first.

Home letters will not arrive until next week, and I can scarcely wait
for the time to come. I keep thinking that I am away on a visit and
that I will be going back soon. I find myself saving things to show
you, and even starting to buy things to bring home. I have a good deal
to learn, haven't I?



HIEISAN. August 28th, 1901


Fairy-land, real true fairy-land that we used to talk about up in the
old cherry-tree at grandmother's! It's all so, Mate, only more
bewitching than we ever dreamed.

I have been in little villages that dropped right out of a picture