AN INITIAL LETTER.
A maiden from the banks of V Waa walking by the D, And glancing round her coal-black I A comely youth did C.| Then curtseying, she said to E, " Tell me, I beg of U, O comely youth, from whence U B ?" Said he, " I come from Q." " On week days I drink double X, On Sundays ODV. You see these cause no ill F X; My name is N R E." (My name was N R E, E Z, And hers was 11 L E). " You've broke my peace, OMLE, Of mind. Love's sharp R O Doth pierce my heart; 111 cross the 0, To pine in O I O." " Oh, N R E, go not AY, I cannot part with E; I'd marry U at once F I Thought you had £ a d. He'd not. She died in SX, And he in O V E. There needs no moral to N X, Nor sign an L E G
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Otago Witness, Issue 1499, 7 August 1880, Page 27
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163AN INITIAL LETTER. Otago Witness, Issue 1499, 7 August 1880, Page 27
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