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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Yesterday evening, my step basset Tessie was
kicking up a fuss in the kitchen.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>She summoned her slave and demanded he retrive
treasure which was behind the fitted kitchen units. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Bad Slave suggested whatever was there was unlikely
to warrent destroying the kitchen and went back to his easy chair.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Tessie disagreed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>She went and routed lazy slave from his chair and
returned to the kitchen, barking, howling, whining and scratching at the
cupboards.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Slave reluctantly removed the kick boards. Seeing
nothing he returned to his chair.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Not good enough.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Once again he was pawed at and nudged until he went
back to the kitchen, this time armed with a torch. he peered under the
cupboards. Nothing.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Irritated, he went back to his chair. Equally
irritated, Tessie demanded he get back in the kitchen - this time with torch and
a broom to fish out the mystery object. Nothing was found.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Tessie was still adement something was there and it
was something she wanted Very Much Indeed. Slave told her, perhaps rather
firmly, that he was not looking any more.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>They went to bed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>At 2.40am, Slave was woken by crying, barking,
howling and scrabbling at the kitchen cuboard. He stormed downstairs, he pulled
off all the kickboards, pulled out all the non intergral appliances, lay on the
floor with a torch - and saw her favourite ball behind the dishwasher.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>She took it off to bed very happily and slept the
rest of the night.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There's a moral in this somewhere . . . .
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sally, with Rolph and Clara (we always sleep well),
UK</FONT></DIV>
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