Cue 3:  The happiest moment of the past few days.

A Story Begun

            “You really want this pup, lass?” Sam asked Elanor, hanging over the box where Pippin’s dog lay with her brood.

            She looked up earnestly.  “Oh, yes, Sam-dad.  I’ve always wanted a dog!”

            He shook his head.  “Folks about the Hill won’t know what t’think of a dog in Bag End.”

            “Why didn’t Uncle Frodo have a dog?”

            His mouth twitched.  “First, dogs made his uncle as raised him sneeze.  But it was those dogs of Farmer Maggot’s as chased him off his farm back when Frodo was but a lad still as turned him off dogs for sure.  You see, ….”

I hope to meet my own new dog fairly soon, perhaps next week!