Date: 1837
I've slipp'd that ere walentine into the post, so now it's off my mind — making love, for the first time, is like goin a svimmin, it's wery awk vard, the first plunge, but it's nothin vhen you're us'd to it.  Now, I've only got to dewote my faculties, to give that ere mulberry-painted, portable engine , Mr. Job Trotter, some compen sation for the trouble he took, to let me know, I didn't know so much as I thought I did-^-I  113 SAM WELLER.