[at-l] The Postman Only Rings Once

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Well I'll send the note.  The package was from Felix.  The note would have read,  Do not plant next to your house.  They flourish in the southern climes much more than the north.  Do not plant next to the house.  If you do go buy a gas trimmer.  You will need it. Do not plant next to the house. :>))

Clyde

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From: Jan Leitschuh <janl2 at mindspring.com>
> 
> 
> These days, a note or a package from Spencer, Indiana no longer evoked surprise, 
> only curiosity. 
> The postal clerk cocked an eyebrow. "Good things come in small packages," he 
> said wittily. Perhaps he had been saving his saying for a rainy day; it had 
> rained today.
> 
> She slit the tape on the small box, right there in the post office. It was a 
> handy thing to do, open a small box in the post office; there were tables at a 
> useful height, and trash cans for the packing. She pulled the dirty, wet baggie 
> free. Most would have wondered at the unrecognizable mass within, but she knew 
> immediately - or thought she knew.
> Still, it was so unlike him to not to send a note. 
> 
> She suspected Euonymus alata "Compactus," but only because she knew how much he 
> liked it when she spoke Latin.
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