THE FOND PARENT AND THE "BERE."
A teacher in an American school recently received the following letter: '^Sir,—-Will you in the future give my son easier some to dc at nites? This is what he's brought hoam two or three nites back. If fore gallins of bere will fill thirty to-pint bottles, how many pints and half bottles will nine gallins of bere fill? Well, we tried, and could make nothing of it at all, and my boy cried and laughed and sed he didn't dare to go back in the morning without doing it. So T had to g-o and buy a nine g-aliiu keg of bere, which I could ill afford to do, and then he went and borrowed a lot of wine and brandy bottle*. We fill them, and my boy put the number down for an answer. I don't know whether it is right or not, as we spilt some whiie doing it. P.S. — riease let the next some be in water, as I am not able to buy more bere."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4, 5 January 1903, Page 2
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