The Barker Street Regulars (1998)
“PRONOUNCED Irene Wheeler. After examining the photograph, she’d kept her eyes shut for a long time. I’d stared at her lids to see whether she was cheating, but had seen no sign that she was peeking at me to gauge my response. My eyes had been damp. The muscles around my mouth had twitched.
“Vinnie,” I said, “was perfection itself.”
Vinnie could answer the telephone. If canine anatomy hadn’t impeded her, she’d have issued a polite hello. She was as reliably and zestfully obedient in daily life a...s she was in the ring, where, I might add, she earned consistently high scores. Oh, and she loved cats. Introduced to Tracker, Vinnie would have played nursemaid by licking the poor creature’s wound. In our obedience work, I’d slaved to deserve her. Was she flawless? Whenever she encountered a rotten fish on the beach or a decomposing squirrel in the woods, she’d flop down and wiggle in wild delight; her favorite perfume was Eau de Dead Thing. She carried herself with an air of moral superiority; she was an unreformed teacher’s pet.MoreLess
“Vinnie,” I said, “was perfection itself.”
Vinnie could answer the telephone. If canine anatomy hadn’t impeded her, she’d have issued a polite hello. She was as reliably and zestfully obedient in daily life a...s she was in the ring, where, I might add, she earned consistently high scores. Oh, and she loved cats. Introduced to Tracker, Vinnie would have played nursemaid by licking the poor creature’s wound. In our obedience work, I’d slaved to deserve her. Was she flawless? Whenever she encountered a rotten fish on the beach or a decomposing squirrel in the woods, she’d flop down and wiggle in wild delight; her favorite perfume was Eau de Dead Thing. She carried herself with an air of moral superiority; she was an unreformed teacher’s pet.MoreLess
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