Dear Uncle Roy,

Thank you for the Mickey Mouse watch that you sent me for my birthday. It's really swell! My buddy Pete got one just like it for Christmas, and I've been wanting one ever since I saw his. As soon as I got it I ran over to his house and showed him. Now whenever we go out to play we know exactly what time to meet each other.

Guess what? Daddy is going to take me to a big Indian pow-wow at Juanita this weekend. A whole lot of Indian tribes and chiefs are going to be there. Every week when I deliver the newspaper there have been lots of stories about it. Today it took me an extra half-hour to finish because Pete came with me and we kept reading the story over and over that listed all the events.

There's going to be a tippy canoe race, a hurdle race and paddle races. The big race is going to be with eleven-paddle war canoes. There's also going to be an Indian village there, so we can see Indian relics and eat food just like the Indians. They're even going to show us some Indian games.

The governor himself is going to be there to re-enact the treaty signing. The newspaper said that this is the first time the signing has been re-enacted since the chiefs told their tribes to lay down their guns and bows and arrows back before Washington was even a state. Daddy even bought a camera so he could take pictures. He told me that he might even teach me how to use it.

I've got good news for you. Next time you and Aunt Martha come out to visit I can play cribbage with you. That's right, Daddy taught me how to play last week when Mom and Eileen to the mother-daughter banquet at the church. He told me that Grandpa taught him and you how to play when you were my age. I'm still having trouble with the scoring though. All those fifteen-two's fifteen-four's. Boy oh Boy.

Well, I have to stop writing now. I still have homework to do, and it's half past seven. I just looked at my watch to tell you that. Thanks again for sending me such a swell present.

Love,

Davy

P.S. - I forgot to tell you. It looks like there might be a real, live elephant coming to live in Kirkland. Pete's Dad has a friend who bought "Tusko the Magnificent" from an amusement company in Oregon. He wants to rent the old Todd Feed building and keep him there. I guess he's going to take him to the Century of Progress exhibition in Chicago. Right now he's at the zoo at Woodland Park. Pete and I sure hope he comes here, because Pete's Dad might get us in there to feed him or something.

Gosh, I really have to go now. It's almost a quarter to eight. I looked at my watch again to tell you that.

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