For having a relative who pursues the honourable avocation of Autolycus—his peddling, not his knavery—he got the said relative to hover around her door with "Pins and Licks of steel.
What maids lack from head to heel and when the maiden in question emerged, to ery, "You owe me forty cash, Miss." Whereupon, in calm and dulcet tones, free from stammering as from clamour, she re plied, "That carnot be, for E have never seen you before." We can only hope that the future man and wife may be as hiapp as he is ingenious and she sweet-tempered.
20th April.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.