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Daddy-Long-Legs 1 Baby Souls, Kings of the Future, bearers of the Earth's great secrets - waiting to cross the Threshold of Life.
2 Babies are a lot like flowers.
Some are born into the
world nourished and cared for amid beautiful surroundings.
3 While others see the light of day from the sordid atmosphere of dump-heaps --- stunted, crushed, and fighting for their very existence.
4 The late John Grier made his millions on convict labor. Therefore he ran his orphanage on the same principles.
5 Mrs. Lippett, the matron, is this kind of a little posie.
6 Pansy Gumph, the matron's right hand. The only bloom we can liken her to is (we offer our sincere apologies) a STINK WEED.
7 The child of culture was christened Angelina Gwendolin Rosalind Wyckoff.
8 While the other ...
9 "Your name is Jerusha
Abbott."
10 All orphans look alike from any angle. Exhibit A,
rear view.
11 Jerusha has had
twelve years
of being raised on the wholesale plan.
12 Jerusha Abbott, nicknamed by her fellow prisoners, "Judy." Mary Pickford.
13 Angelina Wyckoff -- petted,
pampered and spoiled.
14 But poor Judy ...
15 "O the little birdies
on the mountaintop -- far, far away."
16 The Great Prune Strike.
17 Three times a day the orphans faced their common enemy, the prune.
18 "The lives of us orphants is just one darn prune after another!"
19 "Us boys is with you - - starvation 'til we croak."
20 "P-R-U-N-E spells Prune Eating them means our doom. Life's too short and death
too soon
To fill our tummies with the
darn old Prune."
21 "Please, ma'am, we've dis- solved not to eat no more prunes."
22 "Swear you'll stick."
23 "Oh -- D---!!"
24 "How's, oh h---!!"
25 "Oooh - - I know a real
nice dirty one."
26 Meanwhile the scabs ...
27 A gentleman who takes things easily.
28 "Please Mr. God, we
want food."
29 "I didn't know He
was so close."
30 As the empty hours go by.
31 "What's the matter with
that building?"
32 "Which one?"
33 "Let's go in before every-
thing falls on us."
34 "You hang on here and I'll try and make the kitchen."
35 "Help yourselves -- take all
the jam you want."
36 Children are sometimes lent to us to bring God's message to Earth. These little tots
await His summons to return to the Fold.
37 The whispering chorus.
38 "From now on - I'm boss - and them poor kids don't have to take no more baths - and kin have pickles and ice cream 'bout seventy times a day."
39 "Apple Jack" - -
40 "All my life I've wanted to slide down them bannisters."
41 Judy calls the monthly visit of the trustees "Blue Wednesday.
42 Miss Prichard, who is human even though she is a trustee.
43 "Such vanity!"
44 "Tain't vanity - it's a
spit curl."
45 "I was only trying to make a depression on someone."
46 "Get Miss Angelina a
drink of water."
47 "How do you work it?"
48 "What can a lady expect from an orphan who doesn't even know who her own mother was?"
49 "If you're a lady - I'm glad my mother was an ash can."
50 "I want my mama."
51 "Judy, what is a mama?"
52 "A mama is something what
us orphants aint got."
53 "She's sick and will get
germs on my doll."
54 "The doctor says she aint goin' to live long. Give her a little lend of it - I'll squish all the germs, honest - I will!"
55 "Love it quick, you aint going to have it long."
56 "She should be punished
severely."
57 Judy, - the
example.
58 "GOD will punish little girls who steal and will send them straight to a burning hot - hell."
59 "As hot as this stove."
60 It's all very well to punish other people's children. But it's a different matter when it comes to punishing our own.
61 "Please, darling, do as
mother asks."
62 "I won't get out of this car until you promise to throw that nasty little Judy Abbott out into the street."
63 "Don't be harsh with her, dear, she is only express- ing her individuality."
64 Far into the weary hours of the night Judy watches over the little one who
wants her mama.
65 "I want my mama."
66 Out in the great unknown the mother hears the call, and comes with loving arms to take her baby home.
67 The hot-house rose, full blown.
68 "Mrs. Lippett says when I dies God will put me in a big fire 'cause I'se bad."
69 "He won't hurt you - God loves little children."
70 "What's the matter, Bosco.
Got a tummy ache?"
71 "Ain't nuthin' in there
to ache."
72 To add to Judy's troubles,
it is Blue Wednesday.
73 "He aint naked naturally ma'am, it's only while I'm mending his pants."
74 "Bosco must o' took it."
75 "He swallowed a bobbin."
76 "Gee! I lost my mouth
organ."
77 "If Bosco has fits, I'll
be blamed for it."
78 "The rich new trustee has arrived. If those young'uns don't behave I'll skin-em- alive."
79 "Why do people order babies sent C.O.D. and then don't take them."
80 The only time the children see real
food at the John Grier Home is
when it is being served to the trustees.
81 "Be quiet -- they may vote to have our voices cut out."
82 "Stop it!! Mugsey what are
you doing?"
83 "They called me a hippo- potamus two years ago."
84 "Then why are you hurting
them now?"
85 "I never seed a pitcher of
one 'til today."
86 "His naughty spirit must
be broken."
87 "Judy, they're goin' to spank me on the spirit."
88 "You shant spank Freddie for something I've done."
89 "Is this the way you show your gratitude to the John Grier Home -- by impu- dence and rebellion?"
90 "We are grateful - but you have robbed us of the joys of childhood by your charity without kindness."
91 Miss Prichard endeavors
to interest the new trustee in Judy.
92 "There's a bright little girl here. I hope you'll be in- terested in sending her to college."
93 "She is quite a pretty
little thing."
94 "I hate girls -- especially
pretty ones."
95 "Judy - you're wanted in the tip-toe room - - Gee!! I think they're goin' to hang you."
96 "The new trustee has of- fered to send you to college."
97 "You are to ask no questions. He does not care to see you; write him once a month about your progress in college and he wishes you to know him simply as John Smith."
98 "Please, ma'am, the new trustee is waiting to take Miss Pritchard home."
99 "Can't I even thank him?"
100 "I'm going to call him my dear Daddy-Long-Legs."
101 Five blocks away from the orphanage - with permission.
102 But - she forgot her ticket.
103 Home-sickness is a disease that Judy escapes, because one cannot very well be asylum-sick.
104 Julia Pendleton, whose forefathers were one of the ten thousand
families who came over on
the Mayflower.
105 Sally McBride is a true American aristocrat - Her father is the millionaire "Over-alls King."
106 "Judy, aren't you simply wild about Omar Khayham?"
107 "I've never tasted it."
108 "Why, Judy - - he was a
great poet."
109 "Did you come from the Massachusetts Abbotts?"
110 "I descended from a long line of telephone people."
111 Headquarters of Dan Cupid, un-LTD,
World Dominion.
112 "It's time Judy Abbott fell in love -- attend to it im- mediately."
113 Judy's first literary efforts ...
114 Julia's Uncle, Jarvis Pendleton, who would give his riches to anyone who would take his relatives too.
115 Sally's brother, Jimmie McBride,
a Princeton freshman who just hates himself.
116 "Don't introduce me to those silly college girls - they bore me."
117 "Who is she?"
118 "WHO IS SHE?"
119 "You've certainly made a
mess of things."
120 "I'm sorry, but my arrow went right through Jimmie McBride and stuck in Jarvis Pendleton."
121 "You've probably started an- other of those darn triangle things that will end in the divorce court."
122 "Do you have to stand up
every time I do?"
123 "Yes, according to Hoyle."
124 "Why does Mrs. Pendleton
ignore me?"
125 "She isn't sure of your social position yet. Dad's millions made her my friend for life."
126 Lock-Willow farm.
127 "I am Mrs. Semple. Mr. Smith wrote me all about you."
128 "Incubator chickens are like orphanage children - no mothers nor families - they're just born."
129 "I come down here every summer to fish. Mrs. Semple was my nurse."
130 "Won't we have a wonderful - I - I mean won't YOU have a wonderful time?"
131 Why did Judy put up her hair
and lengthen her skirts?
132 Evidently there is one girl
who doesn't bore Jimmie.
133 "I'm Jimmie McBride - I've dropped in for the summer."
134 "Hello - what's Foxy Grandpa doing here? I thought he was safe in the Old Men's Home."
135 "He has a right to be here. Mrs. Semple is his old nurse."
136 "Maggie Flynn is my old nurse but I don't spend my summers with her."
137 ? [giant question mark]
138 "Who owns that yaller car
over thar?"
139 "The little fellar with the white beard you ran down in Podunk has come to -"
140 "Bein' the Mayor he wants
you to hustle back!"
141 "Come again, Jimmie, when you can't stay so long."
142 "My ambition is to write a book so that I can repay Daddy-Long-legs for my education."
143 Moon magic.
144 "I'd like a real home with lots of folks of my own to love me."
145 "Judy - won't I do?"
146 "I've always wanted a grand- mother - will you BE IT."
147 "Grandmother - I forgot the difference in our ages."
148 Good-bye is difficult to say.
149 "Mrs. Semple, what is love?"
150 "Love is a bad habit - it's much safer to have the measles - they ain't near as painful."
151 The publishers
do not
appreciate the tragedy of love
152 "I'll go and write another
one?"
153 Then comes the great inspiration.
154 What's the use of graduation with honors, if you haven't a family to share them with you?
155 "Are you my Daddy-
Long-Legs?"
156 "Lord no! - I ain't nobody's daddy - aint never been married!"
157 Being a successful author changes Judy's social stand- ing. Even the doors of the Pendleton Home open to her.
158 "It must be wonderful to
have ancestors."
159 "Miss Abbott, may I present
Miss Wyckoff?"
160 "I've had the pleasure -
thank you."
161
Angie devoted the evening to making
it pleasant (?) for Judy.
162 "Judy is the first girl whom Uncle Jarvis has ever con- sidered seriously."
163 "How common to marry an orphan - why, she might turn out to be ANYBODY'S daughter!"
164 "Judy Abbott is the finest girl I know - and the cleverest one, too!"
165 "I'm sorry, but the Directors' meeting lasted longer than I expected."
166 "Say, young man, your tail- light's out. You'd better see Judge White in the morning."
167 "I haven't seen you for
a whole year."
168 "I stayed away because of
something I learned."
169 "About me?"
170 "Yes - - I love you, Judy, and I'll be your grandmother - if I may be your hus- band, too."
171 The big moment of Judy's life is robbed of its joy, for her soul is garbed in the hated gingham of the orphanage.
172 "I understand."
173 "I can't stand this ancestral morgue another minute! Please, Jimmie, drive me out to Lock-Willow."
174 Even the weather
weeps in sympathy.
175 "I'm sorry, Jimmie, dear, but I can't marry you - you aren't grown up enough for me."
176 Where there's no sense there's no feeling.
177 Jarvis wanders aimlessly for hours, dazed by his unhappiness.
178 Judy waits two weeks for permission -- then takes matters into her own hands.
179
The Home of
Daddy-Long-Legs.
180 "Mr. Smith has been seriously ill, but you may see him for a few minutes."
181 "Why, Jarvis Pendleton - what are YOU doing here?"
182 "This is my home."
183 "Your home? Are you my
Daddy-Long-Legs?"
184 "Yes - are you sorry?"
185 "You must have read
my last letter."
186 "I wasn't permitted to open my mail until this morning - since then I've read it one thousand, three hundred and two times - you darling!"
187 "You brute - never speak to me again."
The End
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