I know I can do it, Dr. Mac, if you will help me a little bit like
you promised. Most of all I figures I need a heap of book learning,
and it is books I wants for you to get me. You know the books I
need to have, Dr. Mac, and in this letter I am going to put $10.

It is an awful lot of money; but I reckon books cost a good deal,
and you can bring me the change next summer, for I have not got no
use for money here. Don't be afeared. It is my own money. It was in
my father's pocket among the camp things granddaddy found, and
there was some more. Grandfather, he kept it for me until I was a
big girl and now I am keeping it for a rainy day, like the copy
book says, although I don't think money would be much use to keep
off the rain.

Their is a preacher man who lives on our mountain winters, when he
can not travel about none, and I know I can get him to help me
learn if I help his wife with her work, and I can read pretty well
now and write pretty well when I have a spelling book to study the
words out of, although I have to go sorter slow, for they do not
allus spell words like they sound, and sometimes I cannot find them
at all. I guess my book is not a very good one.

I reckon it will take me a long while to earn more than $300; but I
am going to work awful hard, making baskets and other things, and I
am going to get Judd Amos, our naybor, to sell them for me at the
village store, for he goes down their trading every week, and he
will do anything I ask him, like I told you.

This is a pretty long letter and it has taken me all the evening to
right. I hope that you can read it. Well, I guess that is all now
from your loveing little friend.

I most forgot to say please give my love to Mike.

ROSE WEBB.

"Well, I've got to admit that I have seen many a letter, written by a
grown-up, that fell a long ways short of that one in clarity of thought
and in accomplishment of a definite object," said Mr. MacDonald, as he
handed it back. "Do you suppose that her eagerness to become a nurse is
just a passing childish whim, or has she really got sand enough to put
her almost impossible plan through?"

"Clairvoyancy was not included either in the Harvard or Medical School
curriculum," responded Donald, with a shrug.

"Meaning t