TO ALL FAMILY MEMBERS

Dear Everybody at home,

I am O.K. and hope all of you are O.K. I am enclosing herewith a dozen O.K.’s—-one for each. If any O.K.’s are left, return them to me. I am returning home and will bring and O.K. shirt for everyone of you. Those of you who do not like the O.K. shirts can return them O.K. and get their money back O.K. If you need more O.K.’s, please write immediately so that I may bring them along. When I return home during the summer vacation, do not ask me for O.K.’s I do not carry O.K.’s with me unless an order is put in for O.K. So put in an order for O.K. and it will be perfectly O.K. Yes, O.K.!

Yours affectionately,

O.K.

(Omar Khawaja).

REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear jim,

Thanks for your demand or command or reprimand. I am sending your neither sweets nor bitters but sours and salties. You will find pickles, chutneys, wafers, chips in the parcel when you get it. You will get the parcel if I send you. Meanwhile wait. Wait, I am sending you a if—-a big IF—-in the meantime. Tomorrow you will get an envelope with just on IF. But but me no buts. You will get a packet without ifs and buts.

Yours,

Rasie.

REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear Razia,

Thanks for your letter. If one could make shoes by breaking promises, many would gladly do so. Fortunately it is easier to write a letter than to make a shoe. So here is a letter. If you do not receive another next week, rest assured you will find it in my shoe when you come home next month.

Yours,

Noman.

LETTER TO BROTHER

Dear Brother,

How can you be silent for such a long time? No news from you at all ! You had promised to write a letter to me every day, and the whole month has gone by without a word for you. Remember what you used to say, “A promise breaker is a shoe_maker.” Do you intend to become one?

Yours,

Razia.

CERTIFICATE FOR EDUCATION

Jinnah Memorial School,

Qusar.

January 14,1993.

This is to certify that Javaid Ahmad has been a student of this school for six years. He passed his Matriculation Examination of Punjab University this year in the First Division, obtaining 677 marks. Mr. Javaid has all along been a hardworking, throughly reliable and honest boy who, I am sure will go for in life if suitable opportunities are not denied him.

Sohail Haider,

Principal.

REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear Sohail,

I am sending something by M.O. tomorrow. If it isn’t enough, see through the mont somehow. Incidentally I am myself running short of that thing. When you grow up, work hard, earn and save, your will understand my words. With best wishes.

Yours,

Daddy.