My Dear Madame Natascha STOP Received your telegram STOP So
Wonderful that you may join our nascent troupe in time for Boch's
Circus debut STOP Circus will be firmly planted in Boyd's, Maryland
before May 14th gather STOP Look forward to your arrival with the
greatest of anticipation STOP Your humble Ringmaster, Phineas Boch
STOP


--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "gallant_rogue"
wrote:
>
> Does anyone know a "Phineas Boch" ?
>
> I've received the following telegram by mistake and I'm trying to
> forward to him:
>
>
>
> April 12, 2005
>
> Master Boch
> The spirits have shown me your future, and in it I have seen a
> beautiful Gypsy woman entering your life very soon. It is I,
> Natascha! I, Madam Natascha, famed oracle, trusted confidant to
the
> Spirit World, will soon be joining your entourage. I am enroute to
> you now from my native Romania (or was it Czechoslovakia?).
>
> In any event, I should be arriving in a very few days. I apologize
> for such short notice, but I trust you will accommodate. I had to
> hasten my arrangements. It seems the local authorities suspect I
> played a role in the recent death of my husband. It is true that I
> predicted his demise; a ghastly poisoning, but I only relay what
the
> spirits show me. Mad? I curse the fools!
>
> I miss dear sweet Alfredo. He was my seventh husband. Yes some
> well... perhaps all of my husbands passed under mysterious
> circumstances but why do they always assume it was by my hand? I
am
> being driven from my native land because they fear I will stake my
> royal claim! My Mother, Madam Zelda was also a great oracle. The
> fools confused her great talent for madness as well! She was a
wise
> and powerful Gypsy who traveled all the World, providing guidance
to
> the royal houses of Europe. She would not reveal the identity of
my
> Father to me, that secret was buried with her, but she told me
once
> that he was a son of the Czar himself. And this is why the
> aristocracy unfairly accuses me now, persecute me! To keep me
> silent!
>
> Until we meet
> Madam Natascha