April 21st 97

To Peter

An also ran in the Afir Komen stakes at 6 to 5 improving to 7 to 3

“If laughter is a tonic then this book you will find to be a veritable elixir of life.”

The odds are 100 to 1 or thereabouts that I will ever speak to you again should you lose, misplace or otherwise fail to read this book from cover to cover and at the conclusion fail in the oral examination set by the Admirers of Damon Runyon Society since to pass the written test the odds are that would need to improve your yiddish spelling having seldom learnt to spell in English – amen. AP.