YEOMAN SERVICE.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SP/MAYOR."] SIR,—In your issue of August 6th, 1904, you published an article entitled " Yeoman Service," and many of your readers who were interested by the account given therein of two old villagers sent me through your columns money for their benefit, the various sums amounting to nearly £35. These kind friends, who have helped to smooth the latter years of a very deserving couple, may be interested to learn that their gifts were received with a touching gratitude which custom did not stale. " I prayed to the Lord to help ma, an' He has,'' the old wife used to say. About a fortnight ago the summons came for which she had longed, and she passed peacefully away. A widowed daugbter now lives with the old man, who, though sorely cripped with rheumatism, still manages to hobble about and look after his landlord's fowls. I may add that there is a balance of £16 still in the Post Office Bank to Lie credit.—I am, Sir, &c., THE WRITER OF THE ARTICLE.
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