‘Found this stray dog in the road. Know you really miss your old boy – hope Whiskers here helps. Emma. X.’
Opening the box she was greeted with a sloppy kiss from a very hairy half-grown mongrel.
‘Such a tragedy about Emma’, Mrs Bates commented to Miss King.
‘They reckon she swerved to avoid a shaggy dog straying on the road - killed outright hitting a wall, she was.’
Miss King mused:
‘I wonder what happened to the dog?’