present

Dear Janet

Please accept my warmest appreciation and heartiest congratulations on the slaying of that mouse. By my reckoning it is your first confirmed kill in almost twenty months. I was overjoyed that you refrained form eating it and instead left it for me as a present and I hereby accept full liability for leaving my new white (Paul Smith) T-shirt in such a ridiculous and irresponsible place as I did on the floor beside my bed. I would, however, like to request that if you intend to repeat the practice that you leave any cadavers, dismembered or otherwise, on a tissue instead of on my clothes and also that, if it is no trouble,