Smart Dog
“"We decided you shouldn't talk, remember? I was thinking more like you could bring him his newspaper when he comes home from work. Dogs in movies always fetch newspapers and slippers for the father when he comes home from work." "Always?" Sherlock asked.
"Well, except, of course, for Lassie," Amy said. "She's too busy rescuing children who've fallen into abandoned wells to worry about stuff like fetching newspapers." Before he could ask, she added, "I don't know where there are any abandoned we...lls, with or without trapped children in them." So she coached him in newspaper delivery.
As soon as Dad walked in the front door, a tail-wagging Sherlock thrust the newspaper into his hand while Amy explained—all in one breath so Dad wouldn't have a chance to say no—what a wonderful dog Sherlock was, and how overburdened the Humane Society was, and how the family didn't believe in capital punishment, and how that should certainly include innocent dogs as well as terrorists and murderers, and it was all right with Mom if it was all right with him—which wasn't exactly what Mom had said, but it was close.MoreLess
"Well, except, of course, for Lassie," Amy said. "She's too busy rescuing children who've fallen into abandoned wells to worry about stuff like fetching newspapers." Before he could ask, she added, "I don't know where there are any abandoned we...lls, with or without trapped children in them." So she coached him in newspaper delivery.
As soon as Dad walked in the front door, a tail-wagging Sherlock thrust the newspaper into his hand while Amy explained—all in one breath so Dad wouldn't have a chance to say no—what a wonderful dog Sherlock was, and how overburdened the Humane Society was, and how the family didn't believe in capital punishment, and how that should certainly include innocent dogs as well as terrorists and murderers, and it was all right with Mom if it was all right with him—which wasn't exactly what Mom had said, but it was close.MoreLess
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