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Minnesota Tales

The Kanabec Sentinel, March 26, 1905, p. 4

A LETTER FROM OLE.

Master Yedetor Ojelvay Skentnal:

Ay ha ban vanting to wrate ju von gude long letter somtams, but ay dont gate any tame. So ay ban down to Ojelvay von day das week and ay tank ay vill kom in and hav gude talk vid ju. Dan ay koming up bay jure place and ay see a lady standing in dare blaying vid some leetle tangs vat she takes in her fingers and dan throws dam all around yust lake she ban mad; danay dont kom in. Ay ban leetle bashful. Ma moder say ay vill git ever that van ay git leetle older; ay ant ban quate forty jet.

But ba yingen, Master Yedetor, ven ay read that pieces of pouttry vot ju printed in jure papper last veek wrote ba von Norwegen vot signs has nam Milwaukee Skentnal, ay yust vant to shak hands vid dat faller. Ay tank ha ban yennine lumberyack; maype he ban vorking for Ban Estland, anyway ha bat ju ha purty gude fellar. Ay tank dar ban som purty gude fellars in Ojelvay too. Dar vas Yack Bragg, ha purty fine faller van ha ban avay from home somtams, and Yorge Skhipton, ha purdy gude faller too af ha ban big enough. Maype ha grow som jet aftar vile; anyvay ha ban big enough to sell land vot got only gude stumps on it, and af ha got a pieces vot got trees on, vat iz too tall for ham, ha can turn it over to Master Perkins; ha iz tall enough to sell any kind ef tambar lands. Val, gudepy master yedetor, maype ay will wrate ju again somtams.

OLE.