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We just got this letter.

Dear Mouching,

I am one of your most loyal admirers and it’s for that reason that I am writing you today. I cannot give you my name, nor my address which you will certainly understand after reading this missive.

Not long ago, at the “X” Fly Fishing Club I met Jean-Marie, a most charming man and like me, passionate about our favorite sport. Our friendship quickly solidified with the exchange of ideas about tying sophisticated flies, advice on materials, on technics etc…

We often invited each other to restaurants where Jean-Marie showed great taste in the perfect selection of wines and other aspects of french savor faire.

Everything was great until the day that we decided to go fishing together at my favorite river. The weather was splendid with a mild breeze from the west and a magnificent eclosion of Baetis which put the trout in fighting form.

After missing a few fish, Jean-Marie brought in one of respectable size and showed it to me before knocking it out with a big stick, shouting: “There’s one that the niggers won’t have!” Skeptical as I am, I thought that Jean-Marie was joking. A bad joke, I thought, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt.

After a second trout that Jean-Marie knocked out, he cried:”Another one that the dagos won’t get!” And after the third he exclaimed: “And for you, my dearest Marine!”

There wasn’t a fourth nor a fifth for, highly agitated, I grabbed an enormous rock and hit him over the head. Afterwards I dragged the body into a thicket so as not to pollute the river.

Today I’m on the run, a few kilometers from the border of…

So, dear Mouching, I am sure that you approve of my action and that if I am captured by the authorities you will visit me often in prison so, in addition to the baskets of oranges, could you bring me material to tie flies, as well as your new collection of tee shirts.

I thank you in advance.

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 Dear unfortunate Mr. X,

Of course, we TOTALLY approve of your exploit and you can count on us for the superb collection of our new, marvelous T-shirts.