Feb 6, 1944
Dear Robbie and John:
I wish you had looked at the door of my office with me day before yesterday.
Galomping along the street came two of the biggest camels I ever saw. You would need a step-ladder to pat them on their heads!
The looked very serious and sad, as camels always do. But these camels should really have been smiling. For each was pulling a great cage on rumbly wheels. And in the cages, thought I got only a very fleeting glance, must have been all sorts of little wild animals. I'm sure there must have been lots of monkeys, tho I only saw a few. The rest were probably hiding. Driving the great old wagons were fierce-looking dark men with big white turbans -- and even bigger mustaches. One of them played a flute, or something more like a clarinet, I guess, though I really don't know the right name.
It was the first traveling circus I'd seen in India. And that's rather off because there were circuses here long before there was a Fremont -- or even a United States!
Love to both of you,
Daddy
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