Extrakt Ov Letters
Fredom Senter, Nov. 17th, 1870.
Friend Billings:
Thi Allmanax for 1871 waz good for the flesh, az well az for the soul ov man; it fatted me distinktly on the ribs. I remane thine.
Obadiah Broadbrim.
Mr. Billings:
We shall hereafter embody yure Allmanaxes in our journal.
Editor of London Athaneum.
Dear Josh Billings:
Enklosed in this letter, yu will find 17 cents for one allmanaxt; i am poor, and this iz all the money i hav got, and i haint got no live mother.
Charley Briggs, Jun.
Klamburgh, Oktober 30, 1870.
Dear Misser Josh:
The lor bles yuse, and yuse allmanaksts for 1871; it made dis chile perspire gratuitussly wid bliss.
Yure cullud person friend,
Josepheen Johnsing.
Mister Joshua Billings:
I hav both ov yure 2 allmanaxes for 1870 and 1871, and wish yu would send me bi the barrow yure allmanaxes for 1872 and 1873 and 1874, exklusive. I will emit the munny in a fu daze. No more now from yure loveing friend, Jerusha Sheldon, dauter ov widdo Sheldon, near Spraker’s Mill, on the Coshokton pike.