Big Honey Dog Mysteries HOLIDAY COLLECTION by H.Y. Hanna

Author:H.Y. Hanna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: holiday stories for children, children mystery book series, chistmas story children kids, halloween story children kids, easter books for children kids, dog pet mysteries, children's animal dog stories
Publisher: Wisheart Press
Published: 2014-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

SOME OF THEM HAD WORDS crossed out and written again. Some were written more clearly than others. Honey began to feel stupid as it dawned on her what the notes were. “She was practising... that’s why she wrote it so many times. These are all copies of the same letter.”

“Yes, a letter to Santa,” said Suka slowly. “My Boy’s done one of those too. He asked for a new football. But he had to copy it out in his best handwriting before my Boy’s Mother would post it.”

“Huh?” Ruffster looked lost. “But... I thought... what about the note askin’ for help?”

“That was just half the message. The scrap we got must have been from a copy that got torn in half and we only saw half the message. Look, see?” Honey nudged the note closest to her. They could see that if it was torn in half, the first part of each sentence would match the scrap of paper they’d found.

Honey hung her head, shamefaced. She’d always laughed at Suka for having an overactive imagination, but it was her own imagination that had taken them on a wild goose chase this time.

“But... but what about the clue?” insisted Ruffster. “The Latin name for reindeer?”

Honey looked at the piece of paper closest to her again. “Look—this one has some words written at the bottom too, under the message. See? Vulpes lagopus, Ursus maritimus... and here, Rangifer tarandus again...” Honey looked at the other scraps of paper on the table. Some of them had the same Latin words scribbled on them in the corners too.

“I think she was practising writing them too,” said Suka, her eyes going to a book lying open on the table. The title across the top of the page said Animals of the Arctic and several photos below showed various creatures wandering in a white wonderland.

Next to the book was an open notebook covered in childish handwriting. Sandwiched between the words were drawings that looked like the animals in the book. Honey recognised one of a reindeer with the words Rangifer tarandus carefully printed underneath in the same thin, squiggly writing. Next to it was a drawing of a big white bear with the words Ursus maritimus written next to it.

“It’s some kind of school work,” said Suka. “It looks like the stuff my Boy does sometimes. Like a school project. She was probably practising writing the words out on the scraps of paper before writing it properly in her notebook. The note that we found just happened to have Rangifer tarandus on it.”

Suddenly, they heard a loud rustling behind them. They turned back to see that Biscuit had climbed onto the middle of the wooden table and now had his head and shoulders deep inside a plastic bag.

“Biscuit!” Tommy ran over from across the room and yanked the Beagle out of the bag. He looked apologetically at Polly. “Sorry. He’s... he’s a bit of a pig, this one.”

“Oh, those are the Christmas treats my Grandpa bought,” said Polly.

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