The Primrose Pursuit by Suzette A. Hill

Author:Suzette A. Hill [Suzette A. Hill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780749019723
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 2015-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

The Dog’s View

You know that cairn is sharper than you might think and I am beginning to get the gist of his funny way of talking – not that he does talk much, which is just as well as sometimes I really have to cock my ears to make out what he’s saying. It’s all growly and gurgly and full of words that sound like ‘sporran’ and ‘och aye’ and ‘something-ken’. I mean it’s almost as bad as talking to that big French dog the time when we were AB-RORD. I liked him, he was a good sport; though I’m not sure if Duster is – a bit of a dark horse if you ask me. But I expect I’ll get his measure, especially once I grasp what he’s actually saying. Maurice says he speaks Garlic, and I suppose the cat knows – or thinks he does. Anyway, garlic or not, I’ve got to persuade him to be our lookout at Podkennel and to report if Top-Ho comes peddling down the drive again like he did the night Maurice and the Persian were there. You see because Duster is small, grey and mainly silent he can melt into the shadows and spy with uhm … with … IMPOONITI. That’s one of Maurice’s words and I was a bit puzzled when he first used it so I asked him what it meant. The cat must have been in a good mood because he kindly explained, so now I know … Im-poon-i-ti means you can do something without being caught and getting a kick up the backside. I’ll tell Duster that: it might make him more ready to play the game.

And going back to the cairn’s lingo, when you can understand him he’s quite interesting. For instance, he says that he has seen Top-Ho wobbling down that drive a number of times. In fact he saw him on the same night that the two cats were there. While they were watching Top-Ho, the cairn was watching them and the mogs never knew! I think that’s very funny and I would like to tell old Maurice but he would only get shirty and go into a sulk so I’d better not.

Anyway, Duster seemed to like my suggestion that he should do a bit of spying for us; said he had always thought he was meant for higher things. I told him I didn’t know about higher things, especially with his legs being so short, but that the great thing was to keep his snout and ears well primed … Oopsie! I think I put my paw in it there because he suddenly looked very fierce and asked who did I think I was talking to, some bloody dachshund?

I don’t have the cat’s tact (or so he keeps telling me) but there are times when Bouncer can be JOLLY canny. So I told Duster that it was a well-known fact that all the best spies have short legs as it means they can

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