Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1904 — Sam Weller’s Valentine. [ARTICLE]

Sam Weller’s Valentine.

Lovely cfeetur, I feel myself ashamed and completely circumscribed in a dressin’ of you, for you are a nice gal and nothin’ but it. Afore I see you I thought all women was alike, but now I And what a rcg’lar soft headed ink-red-lous turnip I must ha’ been, for there ain’t nobody like you, though I like you better than nothin’ at all. So I take the privilege of the day, Mary my dear—as the gentleman in difficulties did ven he walked out of a Sunday—to tell you the first and only time I see you your likeness was took on my hurt In much quicker time and brighter colors than ever a likeness was took by the profeel inncheen (which perhaps you may have heard on Mary my dear), although it does finish u portrait and put the frame and glass on complete with a hook at the end to hang It up by and all In two minutes and a quarter. Except of me Mary my denr as your walentlne and think over what I’ve said. My dear Mary I will now conclude.— Charles Dickens.