No. IV
The School House,
Oakshott School, Bucks, Monday.
Dear Eggster,—Well, old sport, how goes it? Just remembered it is your birthday, so send you 9d. in stamps—all I have but 2d. How is your mangy school? Wait till our XV plays you on the 18th! What ho!—Your affec. brother,
J. Bumpleigh.
Just had a letter from the pater about my half-term report. He seems in a fairly rotten state.
(Reply.
November 7.
Dear Moppy,—Thanks awfully for the 9d. I am about broke, owing to my half-term report coinsiding with my birthday. Putrid luck, I call
it. Still, Aunt Deborah hasn't weighed in yet. All right, send along your bandy-legged XV, and we will return them to you knock-kneed. I must stop now, as we are going to rag a man's study for wearing a dickey.—Your affec. brother,
E. Bumpleigh.)