Mr. Pickwick, Sir: 
    I address you upon the subject of sin the sinner     I mean is a man named Winkle who makes trouble in his     club by laughing and sometimes won't write his piece in     this fine paper I hope you will pardon his badness and     let him send a French fable because he can't write out     of his head as he has so many lessons to do and no brains     in future I will try to take time by the fetlock and     prepare some work which will be all commy la fo that     means all right I am in haste as it is nearly school     time.
    Yours respectably,     N.  WINKLE 
    [The above is a manly and handsome acknowledgment of past     misdemeanors.  If our young friend studied punctuation, it     would be well.]