[Received by a mail order house.]
Dear Sir: The peeaney you shipped me sum time ago come duly recd. My, is
we souposed to pay the frate charge onit. When we bot this peeanney you
claimed to lie it down to me. I want you two send me quick as hell a
receet for 2.29 for same. Besyds the kees on sum dont work a tall. Is
them ivory finger boards. Are dealer here sed we got beet on this deel.
Wer is the thing you seet on? Is it eeen that box on the platform at the
depo? That luks two small for it. Yours truely, etc.
P. S.--Wen you rite tel me how two tune it.
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Fireplace heating, says Dr. Evans, is the most wasteful. True. And the
most agreeable. So many things that make life endurable in this vale of
tears are wasteful.
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"Since her tour of the Pacific Coast," declares a Berkeley bulletin,
"Miss Case has made strident advances in her art." The lady, it appears,
sings.
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