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"Daddy-Long-Legs" – Jerusha «Judy» Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. At the age of 17, Judy is informed by the asylum's dour matron that one of the trustees has offered to pay her way through college. Judy catches a glimpse of the shadow of her benefactor from the back, and knows he is a tall long-legged man. Because of this, she jokingly calls him Daddy-Long-Legs. She has an obligation to write him a monthly letter, but she will never know his

A book which relates some of the earlier adventures of the Patty who went to college. The adventures are of the happy, healthy sort in which every girl of school age will delight. Older readers, too, who have already made Patty's acquaintance as a college girl will enjoy these stories of her younger days. The book is full of humor and innocent pranks and perfect to give to our girls, because it is just clean, wholesome, and refreshing.

Of all the college stories that have been published in the past hundred or so years, those gathered by Jean Webster into her book 'When Patty Went to College' are among the best. Never before has that subtle and much-abused thing known as « college atmosphere» been so well transferred into type as in this book, the happy-go-lucky irresponsibility, tempered by a vein of conscientiousness, inconsistent and bewildering, that makes the ordinary undergraduate an inexplicable puzzle to the outsider.