A country storekeeper has among his cherished curios the following letter from a customer :— Pies send goods at wutis, want them for krismis, 61bs raisins, them butes you sent aint the rite butes they is 9 I take seven. You must think I got feet like black fellows kanoos. Bag flour 91bs sugar, 61bs rice. The Missis had a buteful baby boy last week, and I had a bad fire to-day, burned nearly all me grass and f ritened doos out the cows. Old woman been sic over since, pound bakin sodar packit eourn flour, the cows have gou<* ovf'tliar milk and sore tits and want feed, lOlbs gud bakin no dried horse like last time wfth a hide a hinch thick, pound sugar lolys for kids. It gqve par/tickler el to. hares and rabfts. and, burnt em rite out, tin trekel 6, tins jam, Tell the hutches to send \% pound vostin mete and the bil,i and J will setbil when I come m all is well, harm tho missis and cows orf ther milk with sore tits and two kids with measuls. Opin you are the same as it leaves me at present. Merry krismis a packet spice tin | pepper send coil barb wire grindstone j 6 pare butes laces, strong ones, pound cheese good cheese this time, last cheese lrrorled off the table. Send bottle Heenzo for making koriniixcher the missus wudn't be without it for. the world it cures all the kids colds quick. Jim fell otf^ cart larst week and burst his trowsis, Lin corn befe, -i bar sopt; 4 pare socks, all iojr' big' £eUj that bucket >-ou, s v enl leeks like el wishing you a merry krismis and happy now year.— Yours Bill Blue-
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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 1025, 7 April 1925, Page 3
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291Untitled Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 1025, 7 April 1925, Page 3
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