The Penn's Grove record., 1883-11-24
OLD LETTER.
My oLD FRIEND PorNr:-

My DIN FRIEND POINT
As am now kaing around thete
parts, and thinking as how you would
like 10 receive a few lines of nothing
through this here most valuable paper,
/, you friend, do hereby throw myself
away for a few moments in thought.
oT,co,rsse you will excuse all my mis-
takes, if there be any, and | wish to ask
fsas aest of the seadersItcsdo the same,
for knowing as how I graduated at the
| old cove schoolhouso, a.few years ago, ]
might make a mistake in my glorious un
dertaking.
Now / never undertook to write a letter
but ance before. anl.tken it vas to my
sweetheart. lfeou remember Point, l
went down South last winter and while
there | gained some high strung language
.frou the allegator-skin negars, and SO |
remembered that | bad promised my
sweetheart 81 loving letter. ! wrote it,
but l never got an answer, and do y0l
know that letter worried her to death lie
fore she got it read. She didn't live in
this place. Not her! She was too toney.
But l have been practising ever since
come home, for thinks | TO myself,
have a good bit of knowledge in my head
an diff | live another centuary | may be
the President OF the L. S.
Perhaps the readers of.my letter may
wish a description of my most beautiful
figure. Welt to say the most, amt as
.smail as | pas when | was younger, for
IL now measureanore than five feet My
eyes are not as dark as ! wouldlike. them
tie be, but I suppose they viii have to
suit. My lair IS rather tannc !, owing to
the fact that | have peel hoeing sweets,
and is somewhat shorter than before |
had it cut with a moving machine.
When standing, I'm as straight as a rain
obwbefure it appears You may think I'm
fooling, but have just got a daisy foot
The girls used to say to me where | lived:
'Stinger roe have a most elegant and
gentlemanly foundation, amt you??" 4
never replied.
Speaking about those negars learning
me some high stnIng language, they can
lust leam those fellows some manners
when they go down there. You don't
see them negars gIaum into the grsb
with their hands and lick the plate out
xith their tongue. Not them. Bat
amt going down South any more and
don't you forget that. Not it.
Say Point, did you see the Mechanics
turn out in a body Il attend sacred ser
vices Oh Sunday? Wasn't they a fine lot
of Young men? Now there is Shorty for
a sample. Didn't he look fine in that
new coat and hats There's Link, he
thinks he is tough with that weight on
his upper lip, but he don't reach Bakers
shoulders, and that is why | think Bake
will raise a mustache first. tell you
what, Point, Pennsgroye does certainly
turn cut some fine young men, but the
girls. oh, my! Well the South Penns
grove girls will do. guess I'D better
drop this subject
Kiddie is now employed as clerk in
Lean a Bros store. ! think he viii snit
them, in fact, Kiddy is a very, very, very
nice fellow, but nobody knows It.
Say don't you think Baker will
make a good barber3 The only thing
I sse to hinder him, is he sleeps too
much.
At last South Pennsgrove las q
dude. lie has been hoeing sweets all
summer like myself, and now he comes
ont with an entire new rig. with Gel
.lnloid cuffs and collar thrown in. He
also sports bull hide gloves and swings
dis cane with the greatest of ease. Az
the swing is he is 40" small a lotafo'
to put on so many Tugs this cold
weather.
Now for fear Of firing you and oc-
cup,i ing too much pace in the paper,
I will bring my letter 10 a close.
From your ever warm hearted friend.
A.. JOLLY S1iNGkR.
N. B.-You may hear from me
aoaip. A. j. ).