原文
"Dear anne, please write and tell marilla not to tie me to the rale of
the bridge when I go fishing the boys make fun of me when she does. Its
awful lonesome here without you but grate fun in school. Jane andrews
is crosser than you. I scared mrs. lynde with a jacky lantern last nite.
She was offel mad and she was mad cause I chased her old rooster round
the yard till he fell down ded. I didn't mean to make him fall down ded.
What made him die, anne, I want to know. mrs. lynde threw him into the
pig pen she mite of sold him to mr. blair. mr. blair is giving 50 sense
apeace for good ded roosters now. I herd mrs. lynde asking the minister
to pray for her. What did she do that was so bad, anne, I want to know.
I've got a kite with a magnificent tail, anne. Milty bolter told me a
grate story in school yesterday. it is troo. old Joe Mosey and Leon were
playing cards one nite last week in the woods. The cards were on a stump
and a big black man bigger than the trees come along and grabbed the
cards and the stump and disapered with a noys like thunder. Ill bet they
were skared. Milty says the black man was the old harry. was he, anne, I
want to know. Mr. kimball over at spenservale is very sick and will have
to go to the hospitable. please excuse me while I ask marilla if thats
spelled rite. Marilla says its the silem he has to go to not the other
place. He thinks he has a snake inside of him. whats it like to have a
snake inside of you, anne. I want to know. mrs. lawrence bell is sick
to. mrs. lynde says that all that is the matter with her is that she
thinks too much about her insides."
"I wonder," said Anne, as she folded up her letters, "what Mrs. Lynde
would think of Philippa."
語彙など
- rale:rail(らんかん,手すり)
- make fun of:〜をからかう
- lonesome:ひとりで寂しい
- grate:great
- cross:機嫌が悪い
- scare:〜を怖がらせる
- jacky lantern:jack-o'-lantern(ハロウィーンで使うカボチャのちょうちん)
- nite:night
- offel:awful
- cause:because
- rooster:雄鳥
- pig pen:豚小屋
- mite of:might've(?)
- sense:cent
- apeace:apiece(1個につき)
- herd:heard
- kite:凧
- troo:true
- stump:切り株
- grab:つかみ取る
- disapered:disappear
- noys:noise
- skared:scared
- hospitable:hospital
- rite:right
- silem:?