| "Just then both cousins
stopped. The bin they were looking at moved slightly and
a groaning noise came from inside it. Very gingerly they
rolled towards it and looked in. A large empty bottle lay
on its side among some dirty paper and empty food cartons.
Another groan startled them, then in the bin, not far from
its opening, they saw four little legs in the air." |
| - A Brush with Death? |
| |
 "It
was late afternoon when the blue car returned to the white
house. Bertie watched from the safety of Guston Bank and
saw the two young boys run to the garden fence and call
their mother's attention to the spout of water still in
full flow." |
- Fire in Farmer
Frith's Field |
| |
"Bertie became aware of more movement.
Other residents had emerged from their homes and holes to
find out what was happening. Bertie rolled down the Bank,
could not see anything in the layby so rolled over it through
the garden fence of the white house. From the cover given
by the hedge of the garden he could look along the length
of the Bank.
"I just knew it was going
to be one of those days," he muttered to himself as
he saw three men at the far end of the Bank with machines
which they swung to and fro through the long growth of thistles
and brambles providing the cover on the Bank." |
- One of Those
Days |
| |
 "He
sat in his big chair which was generously padded with straw
and sheep wool collected from Farmer Frith's field. He had
a scarf wrapped around him, a discarded item of clothing
he had found on one of his many walks. With his hat on and
a blanket around him he looked as snug as a bug in a rug,
but he didn't feel it." |
- In The Bleak
Midwinter |
| |
 "Today
Bertie felt like some brisk exercise so he rolled down the
Bank and into the layby. He looked all around but nothing
stirred. He ambled to the front gates of the white house
garden and turned into the driveway. He wandered up the
side of the house while looking over Farmer Frith's field,
next to the garden, to the big road beyond. Unusually Bertie
wasn't taking a great interest in what was happening around
him and he was not exercising caution. He came to the edge
of the house and rolled on to the pathway running the length
of the back of the house. A movement made him look up -
there right beside him was the little black and tan dog
staring straight at him. Bertie froze." |
- The Eyes and
Ears of a Dog |
| |
| "Just as he was about to leave the garden
to return to his Guston Bank home he looked up at the moon
and then back into the garden. He stopped. For just one
fleeting moment Bertie Bonster thought he saw something
move in the mist. A dark shape. He kept still. He blinked
and for a brief moment he saw a young black and tan dog
with a tail wagging. Jan was walking away from him into
the mist of the night. She looked round and smiled and winked
at Bertie then walked on. Bertie Bonster blinked again and
looked in the direction of the vision but it had gone." |
- Deep Sleep |
