"Now, we'll make
sure everyone knows we were here," said Uncle Marvin. This time, he
pulled a red inkpad from his pack, along with the two rubber stamps
they had brought along. He handed the butterfly stamp to Tina. She
admired the delicate carving again. "Did you say I could carve my
own rubber stamp, Uncle Marvin?"
"Sure, Butterfly.
I'll show you how to learn about it on your computer when we get home."
They each took a turn at stamping their mark into the book from the
letterbox.
Tina put her butterfly
at the top of the page, and Uncle Marvin stamped his top hat and rabbit
onto the bottom. Then Uncle Marvin found a writing pen in his pack
and wrote in the book, "Butterfly and The Magic Man were here." Then
he wrote in the date.
"Now, we'll wrap
everything back up the way we found it, and you can put the box back
where it was," said Uncle Marvin. "Congratulations! You've successfully
completed your first letterbox hunt!"
That evening,
during her Mom's wonderful ham dinner, Tina had to blush a little
when Uncle Marvin bragged about how quickly she had solved the letterbox
mystery. "I couldn't have done it without her," he said. "She's a
regular Sherlock Holmes when it comes to solving riddles!"