Dear Dick,
A little while ago my father came home with a piece in his collar. He fell with the door in house and said that he was on the bottle. My mother sat in sack and ashes and I had the country. The waterlanders came before the day. "My poor little bloods of children!" my mother wept, "those poor sheep". She was as the dead so afraid he beat the hand to himself. He called: "Let me loose, I want to scoop a small air!" I let my eye go over the past. I understand why father so often was in the oil, or had a buck wig on. I understood that I should have to shell my own little beans now and that from study could come nothing more. There sat nothing on but to stick my hands out of my sleeves. Naturally I should not be able to hold under my mother, but perhaps I could earn a little cent to help her. I knew that I should have to give the playing football to it, and that I could set my hockey stick on the attic. But what gave that? I decided to put my best little leg before. I went to my father and said: "I lubricate him. I part out with my study and go to earn my bread". He looked me on and said: "You are still wet behind your ears, but go your passage but". So I packed my little lot and took goodbye of my mother. The weeping stood me nearer than the laughing, but I bit my lips and held myself good. I packed the train to London. Underway it rained pipestems. I came on in London, but now to see to find a little track. I was prepared to work hard for the board, but I would not let myself be sent with a clod into the rushes or have myself sold turnips for lemons. I walked through the streets. It was still raining old wives. I went the first the best office in. When I came in, I at once got the boss into the eye. I asked him: "Can you use an officeservant?" And wonder above wonder the man who stood me to word said: "Yes, I can use a little man, we have it very busy at the moment and we come a little man too short". I asked: "What do you pay?" and he said: "That hangs of from it. In my business it comes there on to for to be accurate and industrious. It cannot differ me what for diplomas you have, but the only thing that can differ me is how hard you work, and that you don't look on the clock every five minutes. If you please me, I shall pay you 15 pounds a month for to begin, and you get a storing over three months". I took the job and thanked the sir. Because he saw that there was something on the hand with me, he said: "Well boy, the life is no little joke; hold yourself tough! Come following Monday! Till looks! We shall best be able to shoot on with each other". I picked the train home. My father had left with the silent drum. I went to tell my mother that everything had gone from a slate roof. I said that although my father had left with the northern sun, I should care for her. I told her that I had found a giant course with a giant boss. She said that she had always known that I was worth the salt in the porridge and that as long as I lived she would not see the future dark in.... Well best friend, I lubricate him. Hold yourself at right angles!
Ja, die met de ballen in de bek.