The Letter

One day, as I was feeding my dogs, a piece of paper came flying and landed in front of Black Diamond's dog house! All of my dogs and I rushed to the paper. It looked like a letter with strange writing! And then I saw it! A paw print! Suddenly, Black Diamond took off running into the snow.

"Whoa, Black Diamond, whoa!" I cried as I ran after him. But he didn't seem to listen. "Stop! Whoa! Come back!" I had to run after him with my dogs because I was the only one that takes care of them. My dogs tried to help by barking wildly at Black Diamond. For a moment it worked and Black Diamond stopped and looked at us. But as soon as he saw us, he ran faster!

He lead us to a cabin in the woods and started scratching at the rectangular shaped wooden door! Finally we caught up right when the door opened, and one of my fellow mushers that finished the Iditarod with me said hello to Black Diamond. Then she asked Black Diamond what was the letter in his mouth. Black Diamond barked and walked in. After that she said for me to come in, too. I thanked her and walked in.

Behind her was Black Diamond and one of her huskies. He had sort of smiled when he saw the letter in Black Diamond's mouth. The musher said that she was writing and a piece of paper fell on the floor and her dog White Brownie had just finished knocking over her pot of ink and he put his paw in the ink and drew all over it and put a paw print on it.

"So that's what the thing on the paper was. I could have sworn that writing was not normal." I said.

Then the musher said that if it was ok, I (I mean we) could have dinner at her house and she was making fish head stew! She also said that she was putting fresh caught salmon in tonight's dog food. Then we settled in for dinner and all was right.

The End

Letter translation from White Brownie: Black Diamond, come over for dinner quick! We are in the woods in a cabin. We are having dog food with fresh caught salmon! From, White Brownie

Originally written in Feb. 2012, Age 7.