well boss the new curtains are in i am back from a years sabbatical i went vacationing in gibraltar you may have heard about it a small place next to spain all sun and sea my cousin watson invited me to visit for a week and meet other gibraltarese cockroaches boss time is so small even an insect has trouble keeping more than three or four eyes on it i said to watson i dont know where it all went you spent a good deal of it sleeping under a sombrero he says boss watson introduced me to a lady friend of his she tried to make me dance can you believe it archy the cockroach dancing so i hid under that hat for several months one day while i was under there i hear aha what do you know it turns out the lady friend is in collusion with watson to get herself some small ones no one wants to marry the spinster of the colony so they sent to new york for me you see old archy ever the fool but it was a nice holiday nonetheless and now i am back here to bring terror to your readers full stop ps if an older lady with an accent and dancing shoes comes knocking for me please tell her i was lost at sea in a terrible tragedy gratis for anything else you care to embellish i am always doing as much for you archy
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