Flats... ... and The Dog
The dog does have a name. Aunt Dolly gave it to him. -■ It is the kind of name, says Ball, you would expect Aunt Dolly to give a dog. It fits, too. The trouble is the name wasn’t available when he first sold the series, and now he can’t find a way to feed it in. Besides. The Dog is dead against it. Aunt Dolly is invariably stopped on the point of revealing it by the splendid aim The Dog possesses. What could it be? Fleabag? Mongrel? Mut? Murray Ball will not say. His pen is sealed. As a kid Murray had his own dog. That was a nice little fox terrier called Jumble. The Dog is part Border collie, part any-dpg. He represents his creator’s great admiration for the intelligent and useful New Zealand sheepdog, the champion working dog in the world. And so sav ail of us.
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Press, 12 April 1978, Page 17
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153Flats... ... and The Dog Press, 12 April 1978, Page 17
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