A Letter From the Bush

Publication: Melbourne Herald
Date: 19 August 1922

dere frend

wot times the balloon goin up? i
see the fedril members is torkin
about rejuicin their celeries is it only
tork or ar they goin to do it.

it seems to me a bit tuff when a
man as got to cut to cut too undred quid
orf is celery of is own free will me
and bill smiths bin torkin it
over and we reckin if it appened
to anny of us we wud be darn neer
broke i ope they aint no ladees pres-
sent too hundred quids about fore quid
a week we reckined it up on a bit
of paper and we ar wondrin if them
members is cuttin out ther beer or
resolin ther boots they got to do
somethin.

Anyways me an bill smiths got a
skeem one or both of us is game to
tak on the job and if it cums to
cuttin price we ar willin to do it
for sicks undred we done want to do
annyman out of is job but bill smiths
a bit of a torker and i aint to bad at
ritin so we reckin the 2 of us wudent
be bad members fer this distrik
you mite put it up to bill use an tel
im that our votes is ome and drid
if ed make sevin undred we ar game
to keep im in orfis til the cow's cum
ome.

Wich reminds me that the cows
dident cum ome lars nite avin strate
in the bush

hoppin you ar the same

yours truly

Ben Bowyang.