"BY THE SAD SEA WAVES."
To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail
Dearist Ser, —I 'opes as W you'll hexcuse my haddressing you hon a sub'jek, vich, being a stranger to the place and merely hon the score of cleanliness (vich, Las I 'aye 'card, is next to Godliness), may not be taken as presumption. The hother day Maria Jane and I goes down to bathe, has his but natrel yen ye comes to a seaside vatering place (tho', for that matter, it seems to me more hoy a gin and vatering place), and ye find there's no haccommodation for females has desire to 'aye a bath and refresh their constitooshuns, unless ye hexposed hourselves at an hearly 'our to the deluded gaze of them as might pass along promiscusly. Try and get this 'ere haltered, Mr Heditor, afore ye pays you hanother visit. —Yours, &c, MARTHA.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 167, 22 February 1878, Page 3
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147"BY THE SAD SEA WAVES." Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 167, 22 February 1878, Page 3
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