ood as the rye.

There was a waver mush a playin, an' mandy penned: "Pen the kosh paulier,
hatch 'em odoi, don't well adoorer or he'll lel saw the covvos! Chiv 'em
pauli!" A chi rakkered the ryes an' got fifteen cullos from yeck. And
no moro the divvus from your kaum pal,

M.

TRANSLATION.

THE WATER VILLAGE, _Dec_. 16, 1871.

MY DEAR DAUGHTER,--Good luck! my love to your husband and your father,
and best luck! We've had bad fortune, my sister has been sick this here
week, we're doing very badly and could not get any money. Your two
brothers are doing well, running about the country selling things. Your
old uncle came to his sister and stayed three days, and went away like an
old dog and never gave me a penny.

Nothing much new. A girl here took a watch the other day from another
girl, and the one who lost it said: "Give it back to me and I won't hurt
you." But the other girl said "No," and so they sent for the constable.
He took the girl to the station (or carriage), and just before she got
there she put her hand in her pocket and threw it away, and the policeman
picked it up. So they sent her to prison.

I have no horse, and can't get any money to buy _none_. My dear
daughter, if you could send me a few pounds it would be agreeable. I
carry my _traps_ on my back now. I saw my uncle the other day among a
lot of Gipsies, all drinking. There were the women fighting there, and
the men fighting, and there was a great _shindy_, some with black eyes,
and some with heads cut so that the blood ran down on the road. There
were two or three pounds to pay in the morning for the horses and asses
that were in the pound.

Your brother has got a capital horse that can go along the road nicely.
L---, too, has a large fine horse. He went to the fair in --- with a
broken-winded horse and a glandered. You could have killed that horse
and nobody said a word to you. I gave it some lard to stop his
breathing, and I sold it for nine pound to a gentleman whom you know
well.

Lotty was at the fair telling fortunes to the ladies. She got some
excellent food, and her apron was quite full, when she saw her husband
and cried out: "Come here! I've got some nice victuals!" She said to a
girl: "Put you money in your hand and I'll tell you your fortune." And
she took half a sovereign from the lady. She told her: "You love a
gentleman who is far away. He is dark, and there is another gentleman, a
fair-haired man