The Invisible Dog by Dick King-Smith

Author:Dick King-Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141389073
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2017-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

‘Now,’ said Mrs Garrow when they had drunk their tea, ‘let’s have a look in your cup.’

For a long moment she studied the tea leaves in the bottom of the cup, very carefully.

Then she said, ‘Janie, I think you’re going to be lucky.’

‘Why? What can you see?’ Janie asked.

‘Look,’ said Mrs Garrow, handing the cup back.

Janie looked in, but all she could see was a scatter of black tea leaves at the bottom of the white cup.

‘I can’t see anything,’ she said.

‘You’ve got to know what you’re looking for,’ said Mrs Garrow. ‘There’s a shape there all right – a great big shape it is, no doubt about it, and what’s more, it’s black-and-white.’

‘A harlequin Great Dane!’ cried Janie. ‘Is that what it is?’

Mrs Garrow smiled her crinkly smile.

‘I shouldn’t be surprised,’ she said. ‘And now you’d best get off home.’

Out on the lawn, Janie picked up the end of the lead.

‘Heel, Henry!’ she said, and, ‘Thank you for the tea, Mrs Garrow. I hope the tea leaves were right.’

‘Talking of leaves,’ said Mrs Garrow, ‘this lawn’s covered in them. I’d better sweep them up. Bye-bye, Janie dear.’

‘Goodbye,’ Janie said.

For a moment she stood in the lane by the postbox, looking over the low wall. On the lawn old Mrs Garrow was sweeping away with a long broomstick of birch twigs, watched by her black cat.

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