[This e-text comes in three forms: Unicode (UTF-8), Latin-1 and ASCII. Use the one that works best on your text reader. --If apostrophes and quotation marks are “curly” or angled, you have the UTF-8 version (best). If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try changing your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding”. If that doesn’t work, proceed to: --In the Latin-1 version, French words like “étude” have accents, and “æ” is a single letter. Apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight (“typewriter” form). Again, if you see any garbage in this paragraph and can’t get it to display properly, use: --The ASCII-7 or rock-bottom version. French words will not have their original accents, but everything else will be essentially unchanged. Errors and inconsistencies-- whether corrected or not-- are listed at the end of the e-text. Note that French words, most proper names, and the entire Advertising section, have been left as printed. Italics are shown conventionally with _lines_. Boldface and underlining-- both only in the advertising section-- are shown as #mark# and ^mark^ respectively. Inverse emphasis within italic text (rare) is also shown with ^marks^. Illustrations identified as “Plate” are full-page photographs (“Scenes from the Play”). All others are line drawings. Any text shown in quotation marks is part of the drawing.] [Plate: JUDY.] DADDY-LONG-LEGS By JEAN WEBSTER Author Of When Patty Went To College, etc. With Illustrations By The Author And Scenes From The Play [Illustration] New York GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers Copyright, 1912, by THE CENTURY CO. Copyright, 1912, by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY _Published October, 1912_ TO YOU * * * * * * * * * DADDY-LONG-LEGS * * * * * * * * * DADDY-LONG-LEGS “BLUE WEDNESDAY” The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day--a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste. Every floor must be spotless, every chair dustless, and every bed without a wrinkle. Ninety-seven squirming little orphans must be scrubbed and combed and buttoned into freshly starched ginghams; and all ninety-seven reminded of their manners, and told to say, “Yes, sir,” “No, sir,” whenever a Trustee spoke.