"A Letter To Mrs. Jones"!   From Michael Gregory Booth,  1967, ...Care Of Mrs. White...  Dear Mrs. White,  I never actually did thank Mrs. Jones for the wonderful card of congratulations on being made Valedictorian back in 1967 Grade 8 classroom.  I meant to go over and thank her at S.F.Howe Public School many times, but it was sheer irresponsibility on my part back then.  It never stopped haunting me, as the decades passed by, that I was such a thankless student, although I was supposed to be the smartest of all in the class at that time.  I hope nobody followed my bad example.  Mrs. Jones as you well know, taught me Grade 4 at S.F.Howe.  I was delighted that she cared enough about my future, 4 years later, to wish me success in my scholastic pursuits, in what was supposed to lead to a Medical Career as a Pediatrician.  I never made the team.  But I always knew somehow it was this little mistake which was somehow responsible for it.  I did write a book however, a Poetry Book.  It's nothing compared to a Medical Career but it's better than nothing.  It's situated at www.errolleeshepherd.com on the internet.  I changed my name from Michael Gregory Booth to Errol Lee Shepherd in 1987, just for novelty sake.  I heard a lady talking walking past me, as I walked my bicycle up Pim Hill in the autumn of 1966, talking to herself as she walked on by, "I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree".  Whether she invented that little rhyme herself, or just repeated the lines written by someone else, I do not know,...but I do know that in all these years I

    

    





"I Hadn't Any Canoe At All, ...But Had I, It Would Have Been White, ...Although Somebody Tried To Paint Mine Black!" Please, ...Dear Mrs. White, ...
"... If It's Not Too Much Trouble, Deliver This Apologetic Letter, To Mrs. Jones. Sorry For The Delay..."

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