And to subjoin, that you must send word if you have any of the same sort.
N.B.—How you are to find that out, I cannot tell.
And to mention, as a corollary, that, if you have none of them, and should like to have some, she has a cock and a hen she can spare, and will appropriate them to Mr. Lock and my dearest Fredy.
This conclusive stroke so pleased and exhilarated me, that forthwith I said you would both be enchanted, and so forgot all the preceding particulars.
And I said, moreover, that I knew you would rear them, and cheer them, and fondle them like your children.
So now—pray write a very fair answer fairly, in fair hand, and to fair purpose.
My Susanna is just now come—so all is fair with my dearest Mr. and
Mrs. Lock's F.B.
GEORGE CRABBE
1754-1832