A NEWFIE MOTHER WRITES TO HER SON FOLLOWING THE FESTIVE SEASUN. ,

My Dear Son:
Just a few lines to let you know I'm still alive. I am writingthis
letter slowly because I know you can't read fast. You won't know the

house whenyou come home... we've moved.

It was a lot of trouble moving... the most difficult thing was the
bed. You see the man would'nt let us take it in the taxi. It would'nt
have been too bad if your father had'nt been sleeping in it at the time.

About your father... he has a lovely new job. He has 500 men under

him. He's cutting grass at the Cemetary when it grows.

Your sister got herself engaged-to that fellow she's going out with..

He gave her a bueatiful ring with three stones missing.

Our neighbours, the Browns, started to keep pigs. We got the wind of

it this morning. I got my appendix out and a dishwasher put in.

There was a washing machine in the new house when we moved in, but it
is'nt working too good. Last week I put four shirts into it... pulled

the chain... and I hav'nt seen the shirts since.

Your little brother came home from school yesterday crying. All the
boys: in his school have new suits. We can't afford to buy him a new suit,

but we're going to buy him a new hat and let him look out the window.

Your sister Mary had a baby this morning. I hav'nt heard yet whether

it's a boy or a girl, so I don't know whether you're a Aunt or a Uncle.

Your uncle Dick was drowned last week in a vat of whiskey in Dublin
Brewery. Four of his work mates dived in to save him but he fought them
bravely off. We cremated his body and it took three days to put the fire
out.

Kate is: now working in a factory in Birmingham. She's been there now
for six weeks. I'm sending her some clean underwear as she's in the same

shift since she started.

Your father did'nt have much to drink at Christmas. I put a bottle of
castor oil in his pint of beer. It kept him going till New Year's Day.
I went to the Doctor on Thursday, your father came with me. The Doctor
put a small glass tube in to my mouth and told me not to open it for ten

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