Charles Lever.
KATEY’S LETTER.
Och, girls dear, did you ever hear I wrote my love a letter?
And although he cannot read, sure, I thought ’twas all the better,
For why should he be puzzled with hard spelling in the matter,
When the maning was so plain that I loved him faithfully?
I love him faithfully—
And he knows it, oh, he knows it, without one word from me.
I wrote it, and I folded it and put a seal upon it;
’Twas a seal almost as big as the crown of my best bonnet—