Dearest Pearl,

The strangest thing, Pearl. After your story about the train-watching afternoons appeared in the Gagetown Rotary Club Newsletter I received this odd photo from a man in Kansas. He claims the giant grasshopper lived next to the scruffy apple trees that produced the green apples you audaciously salted with the purloined shaker. He further claims that the grasshopper could be incited to violence by hearing anything sounding at all like "Hail Britannia."

Have you any comment?

I Remain As Always, Your Devoted Miss Blue