This Thanksgiving Day letter begins with a long list of things for which Dart is grateful. Uppermost on his list was the switch to solid food which allowed him to enjoy a full holiday meal. By the time he’d sealed the letter, even his big bustle had been removed.

He had received several new issues of “Model Railroader” magazine in a package his mother sent and was enjoying catching up on his leisure reading. Then he told an unsavory joke that would undoubtedly have shamed the man he grew to be.