He folded up the letter a sea gull had carried to him and started to read.
Daddy come home, we long after you
Come before the summer is over little daddy
The thunder has roared and at night it is dark
You can see the stars on the sky again
All I want is a necklace of coral
Nothing more, it is too expensive
There are so many berries in our garden
And the birds have so many children here
The lake is so warm and we swim everyday
And I jump in without being afraid
Because I can now swim so good
We have it so nice, here in our little hut
And we have seen a little spruce
The one we will have for Christmas
This have I
Written almost on my own
And I will start school when autumn comes
Daddy come home I know something you will get
Here ends the letter from yours Jemima
Munkustrap chuckled as he read through the letter and looked up to the shelf above him in the cabin.
"Alonzo!" he called.
"Yes Munk" His best buddy stuck his head out of an old suitcase and looked down on him. "What do you want?"
"I think it's time to go home."
"Oh", his friend dropped down beside him. "Why?"
Munkustrap handed him the letter and the patched tom chuckled.
"Good thing we found that coral necklace then", he said.
"Yeah… you think the others have missed us too?"
"I guess so but we had to go for a vacation. Demeter and Bombalurina forced us to remember."
"Yeah… I never knew they felt that we worked too much… And I didn't plan to stay away this long."
"It's not our fault that volcano on Iceland had to erupt so we had to wait for a boat to sail."
"I know… But we decided to take a trip to Ireland…"
"Well this ship will stay in London and you said it yourself it's time to go home."
I was listening to "Brevet från lillan" a swedish song and thought of Munkustrap and Jemima so I tranclated it to english and exchange the name ellinor for jemima.