Anyway, I m very grateful, of course I am. Love from Emily. 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. 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.