Название: Mr Dog and a Hedge Called Hog
Автор: Ben Fogle
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Природа и животные
Серия: Mr Dog
isbn: 9780008306434
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2019
Published in this ebook edition in 2019
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Ebook Edition © September 2019 ISBN: 9780008306434
Version: 2019-07-08
To Otto and Ivy
Contents
Chapter Two: A Hedge Called Hog
Chapter Three: A Fight in the Night!
Chapter Five: Egg-Stra Special
Chapter Six: Danger in the Fields
Chapter Nine: Attack from Above!
It was a bright but chilly April afternoon. A hard sea wind huffed at the ferryboat as it braved the waves off the craggy coast of Scotland.
The people on board had no idea that a stowaway had crept on. A furry, four-legged, rather scruffy stowaway, who was now hiding below deck in the cargo hold! Aside from his white beard and front paws, his fur was dark and shaggy. A ragged red-and-white hanky was tied about his neck. His ears were floppy, his nose was large and his brown eyes sparkled even in the gloom.
He wasn’t just a dog. He was Mr Dog.
Mr Dog was a big fan of adventures, so he’d been roaming all over, from the south of England way up to the highlands of Scotland. It was there that he’d spied a group of people in a pretty little town catching the ferryboat to some islands off the coast, so he had crept into the cargo hold to go with them – and now, here he was!
To his surprise, he had found the hold mostly full of animal crates and carriers – at least forty of them. From the smell, he could tell that they had been used very recently. Some of them СКАЧАТЬ