Dear Miss Blue,

How perfectly astounding to hear that you have a palanquin stored in the garage alongside the St Pearl Classic and other such ingenious things of importance. Yes I would love to borrow the palanquin. Will you be able to have it packed up and shipped to me here in the Village?  I am sure I will be able to engage the Village natives (never would I ask their voting preferences) to carry me in it. They will fall in love with the Message - SLOWER CARS FOR AMERICA - especially when I lean out of the prettily curtained window and sing in my wonderful throaty alto voice. I shall sing a familiar tune, On the Road to Mandalay, made famous all over the world when sung by Frank S. (Rudyard Kipling wrote the lyrics) and bound to send everyone into a determined marching mode.

With loving breath abated, Pearl