they're not bad only she likes reel stories best which is a great pitty
becos I don't know any reel stories but still they put up with my kind of
stories very well and Jean says I'm a funny kid. We have our dinner
early so that we can go out in the garden while the other girls are
having theirs so that no one can catch anything off us and we are
alowed to go all over Finny's garden as well as the nine aker field and
we are really in a very supperior possition Jean says. Sumtimes for a
great treat one of the big girls is alowed to come and talk to us
from the garden and we stand at the window and shout down to her because
you can't catch things off people that way Jean says and the other two
nearly always vote for Margaret that's the head girl who is adorrable and
divvine Jean says but I vote for Ruth who is a brick. The worst of being
in quorranteen is that I have learnt the true charracter of the doctor
and Kit always said he was a beast but I didn't think he was a beast but
now I think he must be rather a beast because he is so horrid and
unsimpathetick he always behaves as if we were very naughty and wicked
for wanting to feed the poor and giving such a lot of trubble insted of
understanding that it was all the cannon's fault for preaching that sermon
which meant something quite diferent and how were we to know that the
poor had scarlet fever? I think we were rather silly and it was our
silly silliness that I minded most but the doctor doesn't seem to
think that and he looks at our tungs and he says what's that? to every
paper bag he sees about in the quorranteen which is only hardbake or
chocalate from the big girls. Jean says he is much nicer to me than to
Angela or her but I haven't noticed any diference myself and I don't
want him to be nice to me if he isn't nice to them it isn't fair or above
bord is it father? Anuther bother is that Finny hasn't said a word to us
yet about feeding the poor and giving such a lot of trubble and I think
she's very cross and is saving up for an enormous skolding but Jean
says no it's Finny's way to give us time to think it over before she
says anything and it's just dissipline Jean says. Besides, she can't
be very cross or else she wouldn't have gone on feeding the poor I mean
the Hearnes ever since we came into the quorranteen which is what she's
been doing because she told us so and they haven't had to go into the
workhouse after all.'

Barbara had scribbled so far uninterrupted