Samuel's Pick-Pocketing Surprise - 4 Sweet Dreams My Beagle (Clean)

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Once again this chapter is available in two versions marked Clean and Adult. The only difference is that the Adult version has an additional yiffy scene between the main characters one of whom is a pup. This scene is not highly critical to the story and you will not miss out on anything important by reading the clean version. *******************************************************************

When last we left our canine duo Samuel had left Kuenia at Mr Clyde's restaurant. You know the place, it's on the south side of the city square, you know, where that cute Bilby works. Well anyway Samuel left Kuenia there so the Dingo could meet up with Mr Clyde and try and sell the wombat one of the canine's stylish suits. In the mean time, the beagle headed back to his old street home in the basement of an old building to retrieve his worldly belongings and take them back to kuenia's shop which was to be his new home. The simple journey leading the young beagle to wander down memory lane in the process. Oh and who could forget that silly teenage ram who tried to punch Samuel's fist, using his large ovine testicles.

Now lets get back to the city square, I can see Samuel coming, and I don't want to miss anything...

Samuel's Pick-Pocketing Surprise 
Chapter 4 - Sweet Dreams My Beagle (Clean)

As Samuel approached the restaurant he spotted Kuenia and Mr Clyde sitting at the same table he himself, had been sitting at for breakfast that morning. The Dingo and the Wombat seemed to be enjoying themselves immensely, as Mr clyde was slapping the table in hysterics at something Kuenia had said.  Kuenia spotting Samuel through the window gave the pup a quick wink before turning back to Mr Clyde and saying something that caused them both to get up from the table and head for the door. In the mean time Samuel had sat down under a nearby tree and was waiting patiently.

As the front door to the restaurant opened Samuel could here the cheerful voice of the wombat float over to where he sat "Tuff balls indeed, on the rare occasion a customer requests testicles I will have you know they are cooked to perfection, tender and juicy." 

"I don't doubt it Warren." Kuenia said to the wombat before raising his voice and calling Samuel over "Samuel can you come here please Mr Clyde wants to talk to you."

Samuel reluctantly got up and walked over to the two adults, his muzzle down submissively and his tail coming close to being shoved between his legs. The young pup very unsure of   what was about to happen.

"Good after noon Samuel." Mr Clyde said gently "Kuenia here has been telling me what a great help you have been to him today."

Samuel lifted his head slightly to look at the older marsupial's face, this was not what he was expecting at all.

"I am glad you've finally got yourself a good honest job and I am happy to let the past be behind us now. Just as long as you pay your bill and don't help yourself to anymore food without asking, you will be welcome in my restaurant again."

"The day you ate those Truffles I was really mad at you, and ready to hang you up by your ears. I probably said some things I shouldn't have, so I would like to apologise for that. So as long as that sort of thing doesn't happen again, we wont have a problem. Now what do you say, is it a deal." The wombat finished by extending a paw to the pup. 

Samuel took a second as what the marsupial had said sank in, then extending his own paw, shook paws with Mr Clyde and saying "Yes Sir, it's a deal."

"Good pup, that's what I wanted to hear." Mr clyde said before turning back to Kuenia and saying "It's been a pleasure meeting you Kuenia." extending his paw for the Dingo to shake this time.

"The pleasure is all mine Warren." Kuenia stated giving the wombats paw two firm pumps before releasing it, adding "I'll see you on Friday, at 10 o'clock." 

"I'll be there. Thanks for stopping by Kuenia, see you Friday." Mr Clyde said patting the dingo on the back.  Kuenia stepped out into the street beside Samuel, as the Wombat slipped back inside the restaurants door.

Kuenia placing a paw on the beagles shoulder hastened Samuel off in the direction of the tailors shop. After they had left the square and were out of site of the restaurant kuenia leaped in the air and yelled "You little beauty" taking Samuel by surprise, who looked at the older male as if he had gone completely insane. Then grabbing the beagle pup by the arms Kuenia pulled the pup into the air, swinging the young canine around in a circle saying "He ordered three new suits, and he wants them made out of a material I have been trying to get rid of for ages. Samuel your my little good luck charm, this day couldn't have gone better."

Samuel smiled, his tail wagging happily at the compliment, as kuenia returned the beagles orange clad paws to the ground once more. Samuel then said "Kuenia, thank you for clearing things up with Mr Clyde, now I can visit Shelly without having to worry about running into him."

"After some of the things Warren told me you have done in the restaurant to get free food, I'm a little surprised I pulled it off too. However believe it or not the wombat really seems to like you deep down, so it didn't take to much to bring him around." kuenia said grinning at the pup.

"So did you manage to get all your stuff back to the shop Ok?" Kuenia enquired.

"Yes thank you, as I said I didn't really have that much." Samuel answered and as he did so the pup decided, that while Kuenia was in such a good mood he would ask the Dingo the questions that had been playing on his mind.

"Kuenia, how come there are so many beds in your house, did you plan to take some pup home today when you left this morning." Samuel asked sullenly not really sure he wanted to know the answer.

Kuenia laughed "Good heavens no, the house came fully furnished. The fur who had the shop before me, had a wife and two joey's and they decided it would be cheaper to buy new furniture where they were going than ship the stuff they had to their new house."

"Oh, cool!" Samuel said somewhat relieved at the answer being so obvious and logical, continued "I was wondering, if you maybe could, um, if you could please, um perhaps make me some new clothes, these ones are not very good and..."

"Of corse I will, I couldn't have my delivery pup going around in anything that didn't look the best, now could I?" Kuenia interrupted Samuel's obviously nervous question, noting a visible sign of relief spread over the younger canines countenance. 

Kuenia placing a paw on the beagles shoulder brought him to a stop turning the pup to face him. "Samuel, it seems to me that you have been stressing out over a few things, I know a lot has happened today, and your still unsure if you can trust me or not. Or if I will kick you out on the street again." Samuel hung his head and was close to tears as Kuenia's words had struck close to home and the way he had been feeling on and off throughout the day.

"Samuel, look at me" Kuenia said quietly, the beagle raising his tear filled eyes to look at the older male canine squatting in front of him "I will make this really clear for you. I know you have had a rough life at times but I give you my word I will never intentionally do anything to hurt you; you will be welcome in my home for as long as you wish to stay. I can say this because, I have seen the way you interact with others and the respect you engender from them. While you are with me I will make sure you have clean clothes on your back, food in your tummy and a soft warm bed to sleep in at night. You should never worry about asking me a question, I don't guarantee you an answer, but I will never get mad at you for asking.
In return I would ask you to be polite and respectful towards me and my clients. If however a client is disrespectful to you, let me know and I will take care of it for you. I will also expect you to do some chores around the place, but it will be nothing you wont be able to handle. Now, is all that acceptable to you?"

Samuel through his arms around the Dingo's neck and whispered "I love you" into kuenia's ear as the pup burst into tears. sobbing uncontrollably with happiness.

Kuenia was a little taken back by the pup's statement. He hadn't been sure exactly the reaction his little speech would provoke, but an affirmation of love was about the last thing he was expecting. Kuenia rubbed the pup's back scritching his neck fur as he replied "I love you to Samuel!" Kuenia knew this wasn't completely truthful, but it is what, the pup needed to hear. Besides the dingo had no doubt that it wouldn't take long for the fondness he had for the youngster to turn into true love for him.

"Hey now pup, your making my suit all soggy." Kuenia said with a smile trying to turn the beagle sobs into laughter.

"Oh sorry, Kuenia." Samuel choked out as he released his hold from around the dingo's neck. 

"That's ok, I've been wanting to see how this fabric handles salty water, so I am really quite grateful to you for your contribution of nice salty tears for my research." The dingo said with a wink, a smile plastered across his face to show he was joking.

"Yeah, right!" Samuel said taking the handkerchief kuenia was now offering him. After wiping his eyes and blowing his nose the young beagle went to hand the now rather damp piece of material back to Kuenia.

"Tell you what, why don't you keep that, at least until wash day anyway." the dingo suggested not taking the handkerchief from the paw extended in his direction.

"Oh, ok" Samuel said looking briefly at the hanky before shoving it into his pants pocket.

Kuenia reaching into his jacket pocket pulled out the now all to familiar, pile of fabric samples and extracted two squares, one a slightly lighter blue than the suit kuenia was currently wearing and the other a bright purple colour.

"Samuel, I've got plenty of these two materials, which one do you like better and I will make you some hankies of your own?" Not that the dingo was going to let on, but What the pup was really selecting was the colour of his brand new suit that Kuenia was going to make for him at the first opportunity that presented itself. 

Samuel glanced over at the two fabric samples saying "I like the purple one  better, but can I have some hankies in each colour?" Samuel said hopefully. The beagle looking completely happy once more, belying the tears that had covered the pups face mere minutes before.

"You really do have loud tastes don't you?" Kuenia said with a chuckle as he looked down at the bright orange shoes on the pup's paws. Then answering the young canine's question "Yes, you can have some Hankies in each colour."

"Kuenia can we go and get my food from G's place now?" Samuel said eagerly.

"Where almost back to the shop Samuel, lets drop all this stuff off first." Indicating the brown paper wrapped package and the two bags of food that was to be there tea. "Then we can go back to G's." Kuenia replied, he didn't really feel like walking all the way back to the felines apartment, but he had promised the pup and Samuel seemed so much brighter now, he didn't want to disappoint him. 

All this became mute though, as they turned the corner into crofts street and Samuel saw a Tortoise shelled cat standing outside kuenia's shop holding a bag. "Hey it's G!" samuel called running to the feline.

"Did you forget something Dog?" George asked passing the bag of food to samuel.

"The rest of my breakfast! Thanks G." Samuel said gratefully.

"Thanks for returning the food G." Kuenia concurred "he's been grumbling about leaving it behind on and off for a few hours and we were just about to drop this stuff off and go back to your place for it. I hope you haven't been waiting long?"

"Oh about 5 minutes, I had to go out anyway so I thought I would drop it off." George said.

"Would you like to come in G." Kuenia said as he fumbled in his pockets for  the keys to the shop.

"Sure, but I can't stay to long." George replied.

"I could have sworn I had my keys in that pocket..." Kuenia said before he noticed Samuel swinging the Dingo's keys from a claw in front of him. "Looking for these?" 

I hope you haven't been up to your old tricks young canine?" George said reproachfully.

"NO!" Samuel replied sounding quite indignant.

"It's ok, G. I gave him the keys, I just forgot." Kuenia reassured. 

"So there!" Samuel said poking his tongue out at George before turning
to use the keys to open the door and go inside.

"Sorry Dog!" George called after the beagle who was dashing through a door at the back of the shop. 

Kuenia removed the keys from the door lock where samuel had left them, returning them to his pocket and indicating with a paw that george should enter.

"This place looks like it could have some real potential" the feline said to kuenia.

"I still have a bit of work to do, but with my little helper here, I am sure it will be rocking in no time." Kuenia replied, nodding at Samuel who had just reappeared carrying three plates containing roughly equal portions of food comprising the remains of his breakfast and the two doughnuts divided into three pieces.  

"It looks like you will be rewarded for your good deed" Kuenia said as the two older furs gratefully took the plates offered to them.

"Hey G, do you like my new Shoes, Kuenia bought them for me from Geena."
Samuel said cheerfully interrupting the older furs conversation as he happily raised a foot paw for the cats inspection, his tail moving to counter balance the pup as he wobbled on his other leg. 

"Groovy, Dog" George said grinning at the beagle who seemed to be happier than George could ever recall seeing the pup before.

Samuel who had quickly wolfed down his food as usual, turned to Kuenia and asked "Can I show him" the pup reaching for the package wrapped in brown paper.

"Wash your paws first!" Kuenia said firmly not wanting paw prints all over the pristine fabric. 

"Ok!" Samuel said sticking out his tongue at Kuenia before disappearing out the back of the shop again to wash his paws.

"You really have done wonders with that pup, he seems like a whole new dog since he has been with you." George said quietly to Kuenia.

"Frankly, I think he has been just as good for me as I have been for him. 
I have simply offered him some stability and kindness. In return he has shown me what its like to have fun again." Kuenia stated smiling as the beagle rushed back in with water dripping from his paws.

"I meant dry your paws too!" Kuenia exclaimed stopping the beagle in his tracks with a screech as the dogs new shoes skidded on the well polished floorboards.

Moments later the beagle was back again and showing the dingo his paws enquired "Happy now?"

"Very good" Kuenia replied and with that the beagle tore the package open to reveal the fine black material which would be made into George's dinner Jacket.

"See I told you Geena could find anything." George said to kuenia as he gave Samuel a smile.

"She did even better than that, this material is an even higher quality weave then the sample I showed you earlier." Kuenia told George delighted with his luck in acquiring such fine material with which to work.

"Cool." George said "I really look forward to seeing the finished product, but alas I really have to go now if I am going to make an appointment with a fur I am meeting in the square. I don't suppose you would be able to help me finish this." George said offering his plate containing the as yet untouched piece of doughnut to samuel.

"I think that can be arranged" Samuel said as he gleefully accepted the plate.

Well I'll catch you two furs later, and thanks for the snack." George said as he made a move towards the door.

"No. Thank, you, G for bringing the food around for us to eat." Kuenia said as he accompanied the feline to the door to say goodbye.

"Bye, Dog" George called.

"Gug-Bye, G." came the muffled reply as the beagle pup attempted to speak with his mouth full of doughnut.

Turning from the door Kuenia looked at the pup and said "Right you, it's time for a bath, while I put this stuff away."

"Nope, can't have a bath now, I've just eaten and that means I have to wait an hour before getting wet." Samuel said grinning.

"Is that right?" Kuenia said dubiously "I thought it was just swimming you have to wait an hour before doing after you have eaten."

"Oh, no, you can't even get wet or you will drown instantly." Samuel said trying his best to sound completely serious but failing dismally.

"Do I have to get in there with you, to get you to bathe?" Kuenia said approaching the pup as if he was going to pounce on the youngster.

"You wouldn't dare!" Samuel said looking shocked and putting some distance between himself and the larger canine.

Kuenia could see this was not going to be easy and didn't really feel like chasing the pup around the shop after the long day they had both had, so decided on a bit of reverse psychology to try and resolve the situation.

"Fine you put the stuff away and I'll have a bath." Kuenia said heading for  the bathroom to turn on the water. 

"Ok." Samuel said putting the various bits and pieces into draws and on shelves.

"Great!" Kuenia thought to himself, "Not only did that not get the pup to the bath tup but now he wouldn't be able to find anything tomorrow when he needed to start work on George's and Warren's clothing."

After turning the taps on in the bathroom to fill up the bath, Kuenia walked into the kitchen. Picking up the knife Samuel had left sitting on the bench after he had used it to divvy up the remains of his breakfast a few minutes earlier; the dingo cut 2 reasonable sized pieces from the freshly made quiche charley had given them. Placing the remains of the quiche and the bag of apples into the icebox Kuenia started the fire for the oven and slipped the slices of quiche inside. 

Kuenia then headed back to the bath which by now was almost half full of lovely warm water. "This water sure looks nice!" Kuenia called out still hoping to encourage the younger canine to come and wash himself before they sat down for their meal.  

With a sigh kuenia decided that he might as well get himself clean and then worry about the pup later. Undressing, the dingo lay his suit carefully over the back of a chair sitting in the corner of the bathroom. Turning off the taps the muscular sandy coloured canine gingerly dipped a paw into the water in an almost dainty manner.  Finding the temperature to his liking, the dingo slipped completely into the large tub.  Leaning back Kuenia rested his head on the end of the bath savouring the way the water gently lapped over his fur and soothed tired muscles.

Kuenia was on the verge of drifting off to sleep when his sensitive ears picked up a creaking floorboard close by, the sort of sound that could only be made by a youngster up to something and trying to be quiet about it. Slowly he opened an eye just a crack, which allowed him to confirm his suspicions.  Step by carefully placed step, creeping through the bathroom door was a beagle pup carrying a large metal bowl, that based on the way he was moving must contain a fair amount of liquid.  kuenia took a brief second to consider the situation. Since no steam was evident rising from the bowl he deduced the contents were not hot and based on the impish look on the pup's face would most likely be quite cold. 

Biding his time, Kuenia waited till the young male was almost to the edge of the tub, before springing up into a sitting position raising his arms and letting out a loud GARRRR!!!

Samuel taken completely by surprise, at the unexpected turning of the tables, almost jumped out of his fur; tipping the bowl of cold water all over himself, as he instinctively jumped back in shock.

Kuenia burst into raucous laughter looking at the bedraggled and rather soaked young pup, who was standing in a large puddle beside the tub the now empty bowl dangling from one paw, with a priceless stunned look on his young muzzle. 

"Its not that funny!" Samuel said dropping the metal bowl on the ground with a loud clang and stepping closer to the tub, trying to work out what had gone wrong.

"Samuel we have plenty of water in here, you didn't need to bring your own." Kuenia said cheerfully as he reached out putting one arm around the pup pulling the young beagle over in a warm embrace. 

Samuel now accepting that Kuenia had beat him at his own game started to laugh before saying "Yeah, I'll keep that in mind for next time. How did you know I was coming? I was being really quiet, I even took of my new sneakers so they wouldn't squeak!"

"You need to watch those squeaky floor boards in the hall." Kuenia replied.

"Ok, I'll remember that next time." Samuel said smirking at the dingo. 

"Next time! Next time, I'll give you next time!" Kuenia said tickling the pup briefly before continuing "Well I guess it is a wise Dog, who endeavours to improve himself and learn from past mistakes I must say.  However, it's now time for you to get clean" Kuenia suddenly grabbed the pup firmly under the arms and dragged the youngster into the tub clothes and all.

"Hey, what-cha doing?" Samuel exclaimed taken by surprise for the second time in as many minutes.

"Did you think, I was joking about getting you clean even if I had to get in the tub with you?" Kuenia said jovially "Now are you going to take those clothes off or am I?"

"Oh, all right!" Samuel declared admitting defeat as he started to unbutton his shirt, as he looked around the room and asked "Where should I put my clothes?"

"Just chuck them on the floor for now, I seriously doubt they will make it any wetter than it already is from you earlier efforts."

Half an hour later with almost half the water from the bathtub now splashed all over the floor, the two males were sparkling clean.

Grabbing the young beagle around the waist Kuenia picked him up and stepping out of the bath with the priceless and very squirmy bundle of fur commented "Samuel you have really nice soft fur with such bright colouring without all that dirt hiding it." 

"Well you know, we can't all have boring scrubbing brush fur like yours." Samuel replied laughing.

"Why you cheeky little scamp, I'll have you know it's only wiry if you brush it backwards."
Kuenia stated with a false tone of indignity as he put the Beagle down gently so he would not slip on the wet floor. The Dingo grabbed a towel and weakly threw it over the shorter canine's head, which currently had a tongue sticking prominently out from a tan and white coloured muzzle. "Hurry up and get dried so we can go and eat."

Kuenia laughing as he got to his foot paws also, 
Samuel lifting the towel up said "Mmmm, food" as he licked his lips.

"You really are a bottomless pit aren't you" Kuenia said laughing once more, thinking this pup really was a ray of sunshine that had come into his life.

"Yep" Samuel replied as he enthusiastically dried his fur off.

When both canines were dry once more, Kuenia hung the towels up to dry, before picking up the dirty clothes from the floor and chucking them into a basket in the corner of the room.

"Aren't we going to get dressed again?" Samuel enquired as kuenia placed the lid back on the basket.

"What? You shy all of a sudden?" Kuenia asked with a lopsided grin before adding a bit more seriously "We're not going out again today, and in this house we don't put dirty wet clothes back on over clean fur. So we will wash your clothes tomorrow before you put them on again."  Kuenia then continued silently to himself "with any luck, if I can get my act together you will never have to put those rags on again."

You just want to keep looking at my butt." Samuel said swinging his hips suggestively, his tail curled up and swaying gently as he tried to reproduce the walk he had seen Sue and Jilly use when they were trying to attract males, before he ran from the room with a yip as kuenia took a good natured swat at the young canine's rear end.

"Dream on pup!" Kuenia called after the beagle, "Now come into the kitchen our tea should be ready by now.

"Cool, food!" a naked flash of young canine shouted as he tore past the equally naked dingo as they both entered the kitchen to eat.

Samuel finished not only his piece of quiche but helped to finish the dingo's piece as well.  Kuenia who had not been overly hungry after eating quite regularly throughout the day wondered aloud "Where do you put it all?" 

The beagle who was currently licking his paws to remove any stray crumbs said happily "Hey, I'm a growing pup you know." Or at least that's what kuenia thought he said, the young males last few words being almost unrecognisable as Samuel yawned opening his mouth wide enough that Kuenia could see right to the back of the pups throat.

"You know, you really should cover that huge cake hole of yours with a paw when you do that." Kuenia said with a grin, getting a raspberry blown at him in response from the younger canine. "Well, I guess its time for bed then." Kuenia said seriously, trying to sound like a responsible parent.

"But I'm not tired." Samuel complained, only to be betrayed by his own body  which chose that exact moment to make him yawn again.

"Well that may be true, but it is still time you were in bed. Its going to be a big day tomorrow, and it's time to get some rest." 

Kuenia standing from the table lifted Samuel out of his chair and carried the pup to the toilet where he put the beagle down again and said "Now pee,  then its off to bed with you."

"I can't just pee on command!" Samuel said doing his best to stall the inevitable journey to bed.

"Fine, you know where to find the toilet if you change your mind I guess. Now lets wash our paws and get you into bed, I hope to have a surprise for you in the morning" Kuenia added noting the instant change in the pups demeanour at the suggestion of a surprise.

"What is it?" Samuel said curiously.

"If I told you that, it wouldn't be a surprise now would it? Now clean those paws and get your tail into bed"  

Samuel quickly washed and dried his paws before dashing into his bedroom and leaping into bed, where Kuenia who was following the pup, tucked the beagle in saying quietly "Good night Samuel, sleep well and have happy dreams my precious young pup." Kuenia then kissed the beagle softly on his head between the ears.

"Hey Kuenia do you really love me?" Samuel asked quietly.

"Yes Samuel I do, but I'll love you even more if you go to sleep" Kuenia now was beginning to accept that yes he really did love this young pup more than he had first thought. The pup seemed to fill a hole in his heart that until today he didn't even know was there.

"Good night Kuenia" Samuel said yawning and closing his eyes a smile spread across his muzzle as he snuggled into the warm bed, drifting off to sleep truly happier and more content than he could remember being since his parents death more than two years earlier. 

"Good night Samuel." Kuenia replied softly.

Samuel awoke early the next morning, to find a magnificent new bright purple suit  with a light blue handkerchief sticking out of a coat pocket laying on the end of his bed. Ready for him to start his new life with the dingo, who was sleeping soundly in a chair in the corner of the room, not making it to his own bed after working on the pups new suit long into the previous night.

The end.

I hope you enjoyed Samuel's story. It may have only been a single day in the beagles life, but if this day had never happened Samuel would have undoubtedly ended up in jail and probably would have died long before his time.

Thankfully though, this day did happen and it was a day Samuel would never forget. Even years later when he married lucy (the seamstress Kuenia hired to help with the sowing) and had pups of his own. The beagle would still go to bed each night thankful for this one day that changed his life.

Epilogue: 


          This snippet of Samuel's life didn't seem to fit in the story
          but I had to write it to give myself some closure on
          a few things so I have just whacked it on the end here.)

As Samuel turned into the quiet street distant memories of the past filled the thirteen year old beagle's head, he had been avoiding this street for years, never returning here since shortly after his parents death. The memories grew even stronger as he approached the door of a vaguely familiar house owned by an old female koala called Mrs Jackobe. Mrs J was his families land lady and lived next to his old family home. With the dress he was delivering in one paw, Samuel knocked firmly on the large oak door with the other.

When the door opened Samuel said "Hi Mrs J. long time no see!"

The old Koala let out a scream before grabbing the pup in a tight embrace that was squeezing the air out of the beagle.  "Samuel, I thought, I thought you were dead."

"Well if you keep this up, I just might be." came the muffled replied from the teenaged canine who wasn't completely unhappy with having his muzzle buried between the ample breasts of the old female koala. 

"Oh Sorry, please come in Samuel, How are you? Where have you been? Are you..." the old marsupial started to ramble eager to know everything.

Samuel raised a paw "If you've got some of those scones I remember so well, I'll tell you the whole story."

"Ah Samuel, still thinking of your stomach I see. Now let me look at you! You've grown up to be such a hansom canine, and look at those muscles, I tell you if I was seventy years younger I'd be all over you..." the koala said with a wink.

Samuel started to turn a nice shade of pink under his fur as he followed the older female into the kitchen. 

After samuel had described some of the major mile stones in his life, from his time on the streets to meeting kuenia while intermittently stuffing his muzzle full of the divine tasting scones. Mrs Jackobe began to tell Samuel about some details of what had happened after his parents had been killed, including some information about the Fox and Rabbit that had looked after him briefly. 

The Fox and the Rabbit had systematically gone about selling everything not nailed down from the pup's family home.  The pair had even told the old Koala landlady that you samuel were so distressed that you couldn't bare to return to the house again, and wanted to make a clean start with them now that they were adopting you.  Naturally I didn't really question this. "I really wish I had though, I greatly regretted not at least checking on you later, but those two charlatans where really convincing. I even waved the fee that would normally have to be paid for breaking the lease on your families home." 

When I locked the door behind the fox after the last items of your family had been removed from the house. I asked the fox to tell you that "I wished you all the best, and your always welcome to pop around to see me for some scones and a muzzle wag any time you liked." Just like you used to do sometimes when I puppy sat you, when your parents had to go out.

As Mrs Jackobe was talking Samuel had just been sitting there somewhat stunned with tears starting to form in his eyes. When the old Koala stopped speaking he quietly growled "They didn't tell me anything!"

"When you never came around I just assumed you had moved away or just didn't want to see me." the elderly female continued. "However when I bumped into them a while later. The fox and his rabbit wife had another pup with them, and completely denied any knowledge of you. So I hired a private investigator a nice vulpine Tod to look into matters for me. What he uncovered was an elaborate scam the fox and rabbit were running, where they would pose as distant relatives to get custody of a pup. Since the authorities had not been able to find any other living relatives to take care of the youngster, they were usually happy to hand the pup over and the pair would then bleed the estate dry. Before dumping the pup in an orphanage and repeating the scam all over again."

The private detective had refused Mrs Jackobe's money once he had uncovered the truth saying "I'm embarrassed to even be the same species as this scum bag, the only payment I want is to get this sick bastard and his wife off the streets and behind bars." which is exactly what happened after the Koala and the P.I. turned the evidence over to the law enforcers.

Mrs Jackobe told Samuel "I tried to find you, but you just seemed to have  disappeared. Mr Clark my vulpine P.I. tracked you to an orphanage, but it had been closed down for abusing it's young wards, and the only mention of you was that you had run away."

"Yeah it was a really nasty place, they would work us Thirteen hours a day and barely fed us enough not to starve. I think I actually ate better sometimes, while I was living on the streets than I did in that place." The teenage beagle spat out with obvious disdain in his voice.

Then smiling he continued "When I talked to Kuenia about that place and what went on there he got so mad. He stormed out of the shop even though it was eight o'clock at night, and went to see a judge who was one of his customers and the place was closed down the very next day. All the orphans were sent to other orphanages and kuenia and myself check on them occasionally to make sure they are doing ok. Kuenia has even been helping some of the older orphans get apprenticeships."

"That was you and Kuenia?" Mrs Jackobe said with astonishment. 

Beaming with pride samuel said "Yep, though it was mainly Kuenia, my dad is really amazing. Hey, that's probably why your Mr Clark couldn't find me, Kuenia adopted me on my tenth birthday so my name is now Samuel Wangarra.  Anyway Mrs J. you really must come around for tea, I'm sure Kuenia would love to know who you are, apart from a beautiful lady with good tastes in clothes and stacks of doe." the teenage canine said with a broad smile and a wink.

"Why you cheeky young pup!" Mrs Jackobe said with a mock rebuke of the beagle's flippant comment as she tapped Samuel gently on his nose.

Well that's all folks.
Hugs and wags to all.
Rassy Eyefur
