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The Office with the big desk in
Dear Mum and Dad, Please please please PLEEEZ don’t make me come home to Murkshire to live in the Lair with you and Smells. Whyo Y can’t I stay here in Frettnin Forest with Yeller, Stubbs and Normus? Because we like being detectives, it is good. Stubbs has made us posh badges with his clever beak like this saying YFDA (for Yelloweyes Forest Detective Agency, did you know that?). Also on our door he has done a nice new sing sine notice saying: We are good solvers but not Smells. His brane is 2 small plus he did not want to be in the YFDA. He got all feddup and lairsick remember? That is Y he came back to Murkshire to live in the Lair with you, then he could be your darling baby pet, yes? So not my fault. Go on, make him stay there, we do not want him back, messing up our detective stuff. Like sitting on the fingerprint pad and doing bottomprints on my notebook. Also, he is selfish saying nobody else can be the handcuffer, only him. Go on. Yours hopingly, Little Wolf
My room
Dear Mum and Dad,
You did not say much to my last letter, only hmmph and grrrr, and where is Uncle Bigbad’s ghost? Find him quick or else!!!
We have been looking and looking, only no luck yet. Still, I have done you nice pics of what’s in our detective kit so you will get more cheery. Yeller sent off for it to Wolf Weekly (cheap). It is like this:
DETECTIVE KIT
Magnifying glass
Pawprint set
Handcuffs
Detective Notebook with stickers like INTERVIEW NOTES and CLUE NOTES and EVIDENCE and THINKY OUT PAGE ect.
Sharp pencil with earclip
Torch to help yellow eyes see in the dark
Penknife for sharp work
By the way, you say what new cases have we got to solve, grrrr? Answer, allsorts but confidenshul, privat, can’t say anything hem hem.
Yours acely,
LB Wolf
Co-Cheef Detective, YFDA