June ’94            
Wensdy                                 
to John’s teacher

Dear Mrs Hodges,
                     John will most likely turn up missin at school this afternoon due to where he must take the wife’s donkey to the farrerers on account of as how when she last had it out in the rag and bone cart he throwed a shoe when she run him toe fast down the byepass on account of she thort the peelers wos a chasing of her for runnin betts but they wosent at all it woas a false alarm but the daft bezom maide old donkey throe a shoe anyway and oblige Yrs faithfully Neil Smalley (MR)