The telephone and mr dog

I recall the first time that the telephone rang in Biscuits house. Her mother had not wanted to have a telephone in the house because it upset her if she had to talk to somebody that was not there, it was for this reason that she had not wanted the thing in
the first place.

Biscuits had thought that the police were coming or that there was going to be a fire because of the noise it made. She ran and hid in her usual place which was a patch of bushes which held to the side of the house where they had been going to put the dog.
Biscuits mummy didn`t have a dog but she wanted to get one and she had told herself she was going to get one when Biscuits father had died. Biscuits had never known her father as he had died when she was very young, even younger than she was now.
Biscuits thought that he must have been a very kind man even though her mother did not keep a picture of him anywhere in the house. And she had always meant to get a dog. So, one day with the help of Jack the carpenter, Biscuits mummy had gone to the town over the hill to find a dog for herself and for Biscuits. He would keep them both company and act as a guard as well so that they would not always be lonely and be safe together in the house. Biscuits mummy had chosen a house  for Mr.Dog to live in and they were going to choose Mr.Dog but biscuits mummy wasn't sure if she could manage to keep Mr.Dog if they brought him home with them so in the end she left Mr.dog in the market and Biscuits had cried all the way home.

Biscuits would go inside Mr.Dog`s house and pretend that she was Mr.Dog and then she would bark like Mr.Dog would have barked if only he had been there. But one day Fuzzy saw her going into the kennel and asked her what  she was doing there and she had to pretend that she was looking for some pennies that she had dropped which she had seen roll into the house of Mr.Dog because she could not tell him how upset she had been about not having Mr.Dog and how much she missed him or that she would sometimes pretend to be Mr.Dog when no one was looking so that it was a bit like he was there after all.

The next time the telephone rang Mrs.Biscuits  refused to pick up the receiver even though it was a week after the first time and Biscuits had to lift it up just to stop it ringing so loudly or else their neighbours might wonder what was happening and they might never be able to go to sleep. When Biscuits had picked it up she placed it promptly down again because that would stop it from ringing.