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- From: R.KITTREDGE@md-b.prime.com
- Subject: Merry Christmas Part II
- Message-ID: <9212231319.AA16177@usenet.rpi.edu>
- Sender: ListServer@Blx-A.Prime.COM (Prime Netherlands ListServer v1.14)
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:14:34 GMT
- Lines: 102
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- My dearest darling Edward, Dec 25
- What a wonderful surprise has just greeted me! That sweet
- partridge, in that lovely little pear-tree; what an enchanting,
- romantic, poetic present! Bless you, and thank you.
- Your deeply loving
- Emily.
-
- Beloved Edward, Dec 26
- The two turtle-doves arrived this morning, and are cooing away in
- the pear-tree as I write. I'm so touched and grateful!
- With undying love, as always,
- Emily.
-
- My darling Edward, Dec 27
- You do think of the most original presents! Who ever thought of
- sending anybody three French hens? Do they really come all the way
- from France? It's a pity we have no chicken coops, but I expect we'll
- find some. Anyway, thankyou so much; they're lovely.
- Your devoted Emily.
-
- Dearest Edward, Dec 28
- What a surprise! Four calling birds arrived this morning. They
- are very sweet, even if they do call rather loudly - they make
- telephoning almost impossible - but I expect they'll calm down when
- they get used to their new home. Anyway, I'm very grateful, of course
- I am.
- Love from Emily.
-
- Dearest Edward, Dec 29
- The mailman has just delivered five most beautiful gold rings, one
- for each finger, and all fitting perfectly! A really lovely present!
- Lovelier, in a way, than birds, which do take rather a lot of looking
- after. The four that arrived yesterday are still making a terrible
- row, and I'm afraid none of us got much sleep last night. Mother says
- she wants to use the rings to "wring" their necks. Mother has such a
- sense of humor. This time she's only joking, I think, but I do know
- what she means. Still, I love the rings.
- Bless you,
- Emily.
-
- Dear Edward, Dec 30
- Whatever I expected to find when I opened the front door this
- morning, it certainly wasn't six socking great geese laying eggs all
- over the porch. Frankly, I rather hoped that you had stopped sending
- me birds. We have no room for them, and they've already ruined the
- croquet lawn. I know you meant well, but let's call a halt, shall
- we?
- Love,
- Emily.
-
- Edward, Dec 31
- I thought I said NO MORE BIRDS. This morning I woke up to find no
- more than seven swans, all trying to get into our tiny goldfish pond.
- I'd rather not think what's happened to the goldfish. The whole house
- seems to be full of birds, to say nothing of what they leave behind
- them, so please, please, stop!
- Your Emily.
-
- Jan 1
- Frankly, I prefer the birds. What am I to do with eight milkmaids?
- And their cows! Is this some kind of a joke? If so, I'm afraid I
- don't find it very amusing.
- Emily.
-
- Look here, Edward, Jan 2
- This has gone far enough. You say you're sending me nine ladies
- dancing. All I can say is, judging from the way they dance, they're
- certainly not ladies. The village just isn't accustomed to seeing a
- regiment of shameless viragos, with nothing on but their lipstick,
- cavorting round the green, and it's Mother and I who get the blame. If
- you value our friendship, which I do (less and less), kindly stop this
- ridiculous behavior at once!
- Emily.
-
- Jan 3
- As I write this letter, ten disgusting old men are prancing up and down
- all over what used to be the garden, before the geese and the swans and
- the cows got at it. And several of them, I have just noticed, are
- taking inexcusable liberties with the milkmaids. Meanwhile the
- neighbors are trying to have us evicted. I shall never speak to you
- again.
- Emily.
-
- Jan 4
- This is the last straw! You know I detest bagpipes! The place has now
- become something between a menagerie and a madhouse, and a man from the
- council has just declared it unfit for habitation. At least Mother has
- been spared this last outrage; they took her away yesterday afternoon
- in an ambulance. I hope you're satisfied.
-
- Sir, Jan 5
- Our client, Miss Emily Wilbraham, instructs me to inform you that
- with the arrival on her premises at 7:30 this morning of the entire
- percussion section of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and several of
- their friends, she has no course left open to her but to seek an
- injunction to prevent you importuning her further. I am making
- arrangements for the return of much assorted livestock.
- I am, Sir, yours faithfully,
- G. Creep
- Attorney at law.
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