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We just received this moving letter that we would like to share with you.
Gilles EDELAYNE, 12 rue Sombre, RAY (Meuse) – France
Dear Mouching,
Like you, I love all animals. Like you, I love fish and particularly sardines. With great curiosity, you might well ask, why sardines?
Well, of course you know that the sardine is a modest fish, calm (has anyone ever heard a sardine bark at the mailman with the risk of annoying the neighbors? No, of course not!)… and of a great tenderness (he, who has never been awakened in the morning by a cuddling sardine, could not understand.)
Just last week tuesday I decided to buy a new couple to replace Mimi and Hector who, last month, died of old age. I got myself to the nearest Super U where, I was told, I could buy sardines at an affordable price (my meager retirement pay, from working as a conductor on the SNCF train line, does not allow extravagances such as buying elite sardines.)
When I returned home, I opened nervously the can of sardines containing my new friends. Horror! They were rigid, dead! And, one could see without a shadow of a doubt that their death had been atrocious.
Packed like sardines in their can, the poor beasts were in a space so reduced that it was like an overcooked sauce. How could anyone live in those conditions? I ask you! The cads who set them into these awful, oily coffins didn’t even bother to pierce a few air holes to assure minimal air for breathing. The death of these poor beasts was certainly slow and filled with sufferance. An accident? No sir! I assure you that it was an assassination, pure and simple!
To tell you about the state of anger and frustration in which I found myself would easily take the space of a telephone book for the entire region of Paris. I’ll spare you that.
But, knowing your integrity and having heard of your ability to “pull a few strings” in the new government, I would be obliged if you used your influence to put an end to this scandal, which could only damage our reputation as a civilized nation.
Sincerely yours, Gilles EDELAYNE
Dear devoted reader,
Being, at this very moment, occupied in creating a brief to defend filets of mackerel, we find ourselves unable to engage in your poignant predicament with the sardines. Maybe you should knock at the gracious doors of our friends at Gobages.com who, like you, love these charming little beasts which should be defended at any price (Ah! How things were different under the old administration).