JOSIAH BANNER.


BROMSGROVE LICKEY, Jan. 18th, 1850.

My Dear Young Friends:—I will write you

a few more lines. I have got a very nice cloth coat

and trousers, and I have a suit from head to foot.

I have had three happy Christmases, but this is the

best I ever witnessed before. It is not because I

have had much play. I have been so busy in reading

letters and writing letters. I have received two a