Lily to the Rescue: Foxes in a Fix by W. Bruce Cameron

Author:W. Bruce Cameron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

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“Good dog, Lily!” my girl praised. Mom and Dad came rushing up to see what a good dog I was.

I wagged happily. I like being a good dog. Though I wasn’t sure what, exactly, I had done that was so good.

“Where?” Dad asked urgently.

Maggie Rose gave a hop of excitement. “There. See? In that woodpile. They’re peeking over the top!”

Mom and Dad and Maggie Rose were now staring at the place where the almost-dogs had gone to hide. The people must have caught the scent of that meat. I wagged with joy. If we all went to the hiding place, I would for sure be getting a treat! People can reach into refrigerators and pull out turkey—it would be so simple for one of them to stick a hand in a stack of logs and come out with food for Lily!

But that’s not what happened. “I’ll get the nets,” Dad announced. He turned and ran toward Brewster’s nap house, the snow flying up behind his boots.

Mom crouched down next to me. “Lily found the foxes!”

There was that word again. I yawned anxiously, thinking that if Mom and my girl were going to start talking about that, we might lose track of the chunks of red meat. And it was very important that I get some! Hadn’t I helped the almost-dogs get the food away from the savage hunters with the huge claws?

“I am so glad we brought you two with us this morning, Maggie Rose. Your dad is right. You really are a game warden girl!”

When Dad returned, he brought several people with him. I decided it was going to be one of those times when humans are very busy doing things that make no sense to dogs, and dogs just have to wait until their people are ready to play again.

Dusty Pants played with a chain and then a gate swung open. All of the people, including Dad, ducked into the yard with the almost-dogs. “Stay with Lily,” Mom said as she followed them.

I never thought Stay applied to anybody but me and sometimes Brewster. But now Maggie Rose was not moving, as if she was expecting Mom to return with a treat.

I watched with interest but no understanding as two people carefully lifted the logs off the stack. The rest of the people stood in a circle with nets draped in their arms.

Then I realized what they were doing—they were removing the logs so they could get to the red meat and give me some! How nice of them!

There was Jumper! He dashed away from the logs that were left, right into one of the nets. Then he lay there squirming while the woman holding the net picked it up off the ground. Then another almost-dog, and another—soon the wood stack was gone and all of my friends were in nets and I realized that they had eaten all the meat without leaving me any.

“Well, that’s all of them,” Dusty Pants said. “Thanks to you two, they’re safe.”

“Thanks to Maggie Rose,” Dad corrected.

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