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Stranger on a train praises young mother in letter for teaching son good manners

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A stranger handed a young mother a hand-written note and £5 on a train branding her a "credit to her generation" for her mothering skills.

Sammie Welch, 23, was given the letter as she sat cuddling her three-year-old son Rylan who was asleep on her lap.

The scribbled message, written on a piece of scrap paper, signed "man on train at table with glasses and hat" and included a £5 note so Sammie could buy herself a drink.

It read: "Have a drink on me, you're a credit to your generation, polite and teaching the little boy good manners.

"PS I have a daughter your age, someone did the same for her once. Hope when she has children she is as good a mother as you."

Miss Welch, who lives in Plymouth, has now launched an internet search in a hope to trace the gentleman, who she describes as in his early 50s.

She was on a First Great Western train from Birmingham to Plymouth on Thursday when a man handed her the note as he got off in Bristol at around 7 or 8pm.

She said: "I feel really overwhelmed by it all, it was just so lovely to get it.

"I was so shocked at the fact he had put the money in it, I couldn't quite believe it.

"I've put the money in a savings account for Rylan now, I thought that was the best place for it."

The mother-of-one was attempting to entertain Rylan during the busy service and said she was simply playing with him as he ate his dinner.

"All I was doing was entertaining him really," Miss Welch said.

"He was eating his dinner, I had made him a packed lunch, and we were laughing at the fact he kept calling his grapes strawberries.

"He was just being a happy, laughing little boy. We were playing together and I was trying to keep him occupied.

"He normally gets quite rowdy and bored on long trains so I was doing my best to entertain him as much as I could."

After his dinner Rylan fell asleep, sprawled across his mother and another seat.

When another passenger came to sit down Miss Welch quickly moved Rylan on to her lap, insisting the man took the seat rather than stand.

Stranger on a train praises young mother in letter for teaching son good manners


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