Salty Finds a Letter Salty's Waggy Tales

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SALTY BARKS

SEAGULLS SQUAWK

Ah, hello there.

I'm Old Jack and this is Salty.

Salty loves living here with me

and she often has adventures of her own.

So, are you sitting comfortably?

Good.

Then I'll tell you one of Salty's Waggy Tales.

Once upon a twinkly time,

Salty was trotting along the windy path

looking for sniffs to sniff...

when she noticed something.

It was a letter. Salty read the writing on the front. It said...

Well, Salty was a little surprised

to see Shelley's letter lying there on the windy path.

Perhaps the wind had blown the letter up there and left it behind!

So Salty decided the best thing to do was to pick up the letter

and deliver it to Shelley herself.

Ha-ha! So, she carried the letter along the windy path,

past the tumbly houses, down the slippery steps,

and finally, across to the Mermaid Cafe,

where she carefully put the letter on a table for Shelley to find it.

Ha-ha! "That was a good job well done," thought Salty.

Then she scampered off to search for sniffs.

Salty made her way

back up to the windy path, and there,

she looked out over Staithes

to check on all the comings and goings down below.

And then she saw something odd.

It was a letter

and it was the same letter she'd just delivered to Shelley.

Well, this was very confusing. How had it got there?

Salty knew what she needed to do.

She carefully picked up the letter and set off again.

She carried the letter

along the windy path,

past the tumbly houses,

down the slippery steps,

and across to the Mermaid Cafe,

where she carefully put the letter on a table for Shelley to find it.

Now, this time, Salty decided to keep an eye on the letter

until Shelley picked it up.

So she lay down and waited.

And what do you think she saw?

After a couple of moments,

one of those cheeky seagulls came flapping down,

landed on the table and picked up the letter.

It then flew high in the sky,

heading for the windy path.

Salty knew exactly what was going on here.

That seagull was playing tricks on her.

With a woof, she scampered off after it.

She ran back up to the windy path,

in time to see the cheeky seagull

drop the letter

right where Salty had found it in the first place.

Well, Salty does not like being outsmarted by seagulls.

Ooh, no.

So, she picked up the letter again

and carried it to a nearby fisherman's cottage.

She then placed it on the step,

as if she was delivering it,

and she waited.

And sure enough, the cheeky seagull saw this and swooped down,

picked up the letter and shot off high into the sky,

and that was exactly what Salty wanted it to do.

She chased the seagull along the windy path,

past the tumbly houses,

down the slippery steps,

until she saw it

high above Shelley's Cafe.

And then Salty gave a huge WOOF!

SALTY BARKS

The seagull was so surprised,

it squawked...

and the letter came tumbling down,

and it landed safely on one of the Mermaid Cafe's tables. Ha-ha!

Well done, Salty!

She had tricked that cheeky seagull into delivering the letter.

Salty then settled down to guard the letter

until Shelley came out of the kitchen. That way,

no seagulls could play games with it again.

Ha-ha! Clever Salty!

She's the best dog in the world.

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