Blue Bonnet ranch. I
keep pinching myself to see if I'm really me, but it
isn't at all convincing, and I suppose I'll simply go
on treading air and not believe in the reality of a
thing till I come to earth in time to hear the Jolly
Good say--'Miss Kitty, you may take problem number
ninety-four'--and wake up to the monotonous old grind
again--oh, if you could only see this darling old
house and the picturesque Mexicans--rather dirty some
of them (I suppose that's why they are called
greasers) and the perfectly dear way they adore Blue
Bonnet and their deference to her 'amigos'--I tell you
I feel like a princess when they call me 'Senorita'
with a musical accent that makes you downright sick
with envy. Why anybody on earth ever left the West to
go and settle up the East I don't see,--you may think
I mean that the other way about but I don't, for
anybody can see at half a glance that this country is
as old as Methusalem--the live-oaks look as if they'd
been here forever and ever and would stay as much
longer--they're all 'hoary with moss' and all that
sort of thing like that poem of Tennyson's--or maybe
it is Longfellow's--it doesn't matter which in
vacation, thank goodness. I don't like to seem to be
rubbing it in about our good times, for it's just too
hateful that you can't be here, too, and ride like mad
for miles without coming to a fence and wear the
adorable riding-suits Mr. Ashe got for us in New
York--all seven alike and as becoming as anything--and
have the best things to eat, wear, do, and see every
minute of the day.

"This won't go into the envelope with the rest if I
run on any longer so I'll close,--with a fat hard hug
and lots of love to you both,

"KITTY."

"DEAR GIRLS: Don't you ever go and get conditioned at
school; take my solemn warning. That awful thing
hanging over me is going to do its best to spoil my
grand summer in Texas. I intended to do a lot of
studying as soon as we arrived here, so that I might
have a few weeks perfectly free from worry; but
goodness me, how can anybody open a book when there's
something goi