AN IMMIGRANT’S LETTER.
From Miss Martha Potter, Sousemaid.
Dear Susan, I take up my pen just to write These lines, as the mail is a leaving to-day • W «- e v }. h ° po all are well down at Biddioum iJignfc. As it leaves me at present I’m happy to say.
Oh! Sukey, he sure you come out by nest ship, For this is a sensible sort of a place * No missus out here dares to screw or nip. And going to service ain*t thought a disgrace. Dißg dea C! 1 e3b ° uld fchiak not * why, Susan my Domestics out here meet with proper respect. We move in a very superior spear. And leave if the neighborhood isn’t select.
Why, only last week a fine lady came down And begged very hard that I'd come aa her cook ; But, Suke, when she mentioned she lived out of town, ’Twould a taken a hartisfe to picter my look.
Now, Susan, old girl, don’t you make a mistake And slave along there t’other side of the hearth, As soon as you can, aich hard labor forsake. And come to a land where they value your worth. J
But master is waiting to take this to town. So Sukey, good-bye—do come over the waves • *° r down* 8 hero “ jUßfc turned u Pside And servants are ladies and missuses slaves.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 177, 16 May 1874, Page 3
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224AN IMMIGRANT’S LETTER. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 177, 16 May 1874, Page 3
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