Alice's father had a family dog called Betty, a brindle Staffordshire bull terrier. This breed of dog only likes one family.
The dog was never allowed to sit in the back of the car. It was driven to the family house in the boot of the car of one of the father's rusted members of the father's workforce. Putting a dog in the boot of a car is probably illegal in most places nowadays.
Alice's father ran a coal merchant business. He as kind to his workforce and this man was appreciative of being hired.
When Alice was a child there was a fire in the cellar of their Edwardian house. A maid put the clothes horse too near the fire. The apron strings were set alight by a spark from the coal.
The maid had already gone to bed early. The children were asleep and the parents were out. Luckily they had told the maid they had gone to visit the next door neighbours of the house where they had previously lived.
Luckily when the fire started, the bull terrier sleeping in the basement was able to get out. Fortunately the door was ajar, and the the dog shot up the stairs. It ran up and banged and scratched on the maid's door and whined until she woke and opened the door. The dog then grabbed the skirt of her night dress and pulled her down the stairs. When she head the roaring fire below, she fled the house and ran down the road to another maid's house.
Their father's friend, whose house it was, asked where the parents had gone. He knew the old neighbours. He ran first to the house with the fire to put it out.
Only that day, Alice's father had put a big fire hose by the downstairs kitchen window. The friend kicked in the window and poured in a torrent of water. The fire went out.
Then he phoned the parents and went to fetch them.
Alice's brother was told about the fire. However the parents did not tell her in case it upset her. They made her brother promise not to tell her.
Only years later, when Alice and her brother were adults and living elsewhere, did he tell her what had happened, and how the dog had saved them.
In later life, when Alice and Loudon moved to Hatch End, they had a cat. Let us go back to the tales of the cats' tails.
See next post/section.
The dog was never allowed to sit in the back of the car. It was driven to the family house in the boot of the car of one of the father's rusted members of the father's workforce. Putting a dog in the boot of a car is probably illegal in most places nowadays.
Alice's father ran a coal merchant business. He as kind to his workforce and this man was appreciative of being hired.
When Alice was a child there was a fire in the cellar of their Edwardian house. A maid put the clothes horse too near the fire. The apron strings were set alight by a spark from the coal.
The maid had already gone to bed early. The children were asleep and the parents were out. Luckily they had told the maid they had gone to visit the next door neighbours of the house where they had previously lived.
Luckily when the fire started, the bull terrier sleeping in the basement was able to get out. Fortunately the door was ajar, and the the dog shot up the stairs. It ran up and banged and scratched on the maid's door and whined until she woke and opened the door. The dog then grabbed the skirt of her night dress and pulled her down the stairs. When she head the roaring fire below, she fled the house and ran down the road to another maid's house.
Their father's friend, whose house it was, asked where the parents had gone. He knew the old neighbours. He ran first to the house with the fire to put it out.
Only that day, Alice's father had put a big fire hose by the downstairs kitchen window. The friend kicked in the window and poured in a torrent of water. The fire went out.
Then he phoned the parents and went to fetch them.
Alice's brother was told about the fire. However the parents did not tell her in case it upset her. They made her brother promise not to tell her.
Only years later, when Alice and her brother were adults and living elsewhere, did he tell her what had happened, and how the dog had saved them.
In later life, when Alice and Loudon moved to Hatch End, they had a cat. Let us go back to the tales of the cats' tails.
See next post/section.
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