This is Ricky the mummified squirrel.
My father gave him to me when I was 15.
It was just before the police took him.
I've held on to Ricky for 47 years.
Apparently he was given to my father
by a French soldier during the battle of Somme.
The soldier was shell-shocked but he was lucid enough to
explain that Ricky was magic and originally came from Egypt.
At least that's what he thought the Frenchman said,
foreign linguistics not being one of my father's strong points.
My father told me Ricky can explain the unexplainable,
if you bother to ask.
And it's been true more or less.
If you have any questions for him let me know.