DO YOU WANT A GOOD LAUGH ?

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 22, 22 October 1898, Page 2

DO YOU WANT A GOOD LAUGH ?

Tmnsr 3keaj> the following lovi LETTER. I 'A correspondent has sent us for publication the followingclever and amusing letter (taken from the Draper's Kecord), which is supposed to ba the first attempt of -a young Welshman to convey to his ladylove his thoughts .in an alien tongue. The composition was awarded a prize at a . recent social heOd under the auspices of . the Pontypridd branch : — From John -Jones Tscff Street, Pontypridd, October 4th, 1897, To Mary -Jane Evans, The Shop, Maenclochog. JMy dear -Mary Jane, it wass with want of think that I did. 3not jrite to you a love letter sooner -and 4hißtsause I think of you every Hour of day and every day of the hear. And I do love your Father to cause "he did lend you and the Horse and Cart to brought me to the Train on Monday. - " Indeed to Goodness I ahall.never forget to remember what you did tell me when ■comin in' the Cart. Oh Mary Jane (stick to the promis, hont you my dear) I 4id rive in-Pontfvpridd safe and sound -and I -did go straight to the shop, and when the Master did Bee me, he did say tome (man

from where you are) and I did told him I "was John from Maenclochog coming to ■work in his shop, then he did nowed me in a minit, look you. My work is selling •Cotton and Tapes and Hundreds, yes, millions of othar little things. They do ■Call it the Happy Compartment, or some" thing, but inded to goodness it was not very happy at all to be here without you, the girl I do love better and nobody (for all the time lam thinking of you). Oh yea you will hask my mother to send my watch if it is walking cause it will be very handy for me in the morning to know. what o'clock it is. She do now my very directions." There is a lot of girls in this shop but not one to match you Mary Jane. How. long you are going to stop in Mary Jones is shop again Mary Jane, cause I will try to get you a job at Pontypridd to be milUnder. I will hask Mr Thomas the draper about a vacancy for you for they say he do give very good vittles to his clarks. It will better by half for you to corned to Pontypridd, cause then we will be near one another, for the forehead of Mr Thomas is shop and the forehead of our shop be quite close by one another. And by and by we will marry is it not' my dear? They do say that shop girls do not make good wifes.