Dear Miss Blue,

Giuseppina and her stories! Remember the story of Giuseppina and the Ant? We loved hearing her say,

Oh Formica,
How you getta here so quicka',
I don't see you on the shipa'
Oh, now I understan',
You dig a tunnel
Thru the land,
Just to find 
Your little fran'
Guiseppina.

Fanny will surely miss her new friends, but letters will fly back and forth until they pile up so high that Linguini will have to put them on a train for another visit! And as for black cats; why, Miss Blue, I am totally without anything interesting or pertinent to say about black cats other than it has been whispered around that they are witches in disguise!

I have wrapped up a wheel of cheese, the sharpest I could find (from our Cheese Store in the Village) and have sent it to Fanny and Melba to share, of course, with you.

Love from Pearl