FROM “DEAR AND INTIMATE” TO A “DITTO DITTO.”
Brighton.
MY DEAR TOM,—How are you, old fellow? Here I am, as happy as a prince; that is, I should be if you were with me. You know when we first met! what a time it was! do you remember? How the old times come back, and really almost the same circumstances! Pray do you recollect I wanted one hundred and fifty then? isn’t it droll I do now? Send me your check, or bring it yourself.
Ever yours.
FITZBROWN SMITH.
T. Tims, Esq.
(Tenthly.)
ANSWER FROM “THE DITTO DITTO” TO “THE DITTO DITTO.”
OLD FELLOW,—Glad to hear you are so fresh! Give you joy—wish I was with you, but can’t come. Damn the last Derby—regularly stump’d—cleaned out—and done Brown!—not a feather to fly with! Need I say how sorry I am. Here’s your health in Burgundy. Must make a raise for my Opera-box and a new tilbury. Just lost my last fifty at French hazard.
Ever, your most devoted friend,
T. TIMS.