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—