My Boy Teddy Lawrence!

Doesn't he look downright jolly here? This is the day I made up my mind to become friends with "The Lawrence Boy", and forever disgraced myself in Meg's eyes by tossing up some snow to his window. The poor dear had no company to lift his spirits, and had been shut inside a week with a sore throat! He needed life and fun, and not to be treated as a fragile girl, which is not good for active lads you know.

Such adventures we have together! Like skating and boating and riding and playing such pranks on the others! And I can have my fill of slang and bootlaces and large floppy hats, with no disapproving eyes to tell me collar isn't straight!

His real name is Theodore Lawrence. He said the fellows used to call him "Dora", so he made them call him Laurie instead. I asked him once how he got the others to stop calling him Dora (I wish people would call me Jo instead of Josephine!) and he said he "thrashed 'em". Lucky! Girls cannot "thrash".

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