Dear Peg,

Well your presents are all wrapped up now and ready to send as soon as the mail opens tomorrow!

Now how can I give some more hints?

I'm a reasonably frequent vistor to one or more of the places associated with what's in your package...

The posting place may give a clue...if you think very small indeed ...

I still have hope of finding the Sandman comics for a later mailing in my home town... the wild boar proved beyond my humble capabilities and the local environment I'm afraid.

Hmm...let's see what else? We share a lot of musical interests. I have met quite a lot of 'Catters and certainly we have some common contacts amongst them. However, I don't think this will make it any easier to guess my identity.

Archaeology.....certainly! Was involved in it for quite a while!

Old books? Love them as well! My oldest is Brookes' "Natual History of Quadrupedes - including Amphibious Animals, Frogs and Lizards - with Their Properties and Ufes in Medicine" printed at the Bobile and Sun, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1763. I have it by my side now and interestingly it descibes Europeans' knowledge of indiginous peoples at that time. Here is what it says about the indiginous Californians.

We fhall clofe the defcription of the Americans with fome account of the Californians, which are the leaft known to the Europeans of any in that part of the world.....They all go naked, only the Women have a fort of petticoats, made of filk, grafs, or fkins....They are far from being handfome..... An interesting insight into the perspectives and social views of the time!

Perhaps that will do for now...I'll post some more hints soon!

All the best from your Secretive Yule-Person!