It's _so_ hard to know the style.

"Will you try and match the sample
I enclose--be sure it's green.
Get three yards--that will be ample.
Velvet, mind, not velveteen.

"Gentle mother worries badly,
And she thinks it is a shame
That a man like Dr. Hadley
Lets you play that football game.

"For the way they hurt each other
Seems so barbarously rude--
No, you've not been raised, dear brother,
To do anything so crude.

"And those horrid meals at college--
Not what you're accustomed to.
It is hard, this quest for knowledge,
But be brave.
"Your sister, Boo."

"P.S.--
"If it's not too great a bother
And a mental overtax,
Would you send your poor old father,
C.O.D., a battle-axe?"

[Footnote 4: From "At the Sign of the Dollar," by Wallace Irwin.