Little Wolf, Forest Detective. Tony Ross

and took him back to his mum. She was so happy, she gave us some cuckoo spit. So now we have got some nice froth to go on cups of hot choclit, yum yum tasty!

      Yours yawnly,

      Laaah Waaaah Zzzzzz

      

      Dear Mum and Dad,

      It is not my fault Smells is jealous of my adventures. He always gets jealous. So go on, make him stay with you, hmmm? stroke stroke. Also, you are not fair, saying grrrrr you bet we do not earn much money being detectives because we cannot find my own dead uncle even. True we are not rich yet, BUT (big but) what about all that gold I had in my safe till Smellybreff got some gunpowder and blew it to small smithers? That made my gold go scattering all over Frettnin Forest.

      Never mind, guess what? Stubbs found 3 gold coins high up in some nests yesterday! Arrrooo! So well done our Flying Squad, good searching.

      Now I will tell you a bit more about what wants solving.

      KIDNAPS

       The Case of the Small Missing Moose

       The Case of the 3 Bunnies that Hopped it

       The Case of the 4 Pinched Hedgepiglets

       The Case of the Lost Lion Cub

       The Case of the 4 Disappeared Ducklings, ect.

      Also

      ROBBINGS

       The Case of the Jackdaw’s Jewels

       The Case of the Weasel’s

       Gold Watch

      SPOOKLY HAUNTINGS

       The Case of the Green Bubble that Floats in the Night-time

      Oo-er! What is happening? Where have the small brute beasts all gone? Who pinched the jewels and the watch? What comes floating about in the night like a green bubble? Do not fear and fret, do not get wurrid, the YFDA will soon find out. Arrrroooo!

      Yours yellow-eyedly,

      Little

      PS Mum always says yellow eyes are friends with the dark, yes? So look out clues, we are after you even with all the lights out.

      

       Sulking corner

      Dear Mum and Dad,

      Thank you for your harsh letter saying we are not proper detectives but you know somebody who is.

      You say this somebody is not called a detective, but a Private Investigator which is a lot more posh. And he told you magnifying glasses are rubbish. He has got all hi-tech tools for detecting and he is called Furlock Homes-Wolf. And he is faymuss because he solved The Hard Case of the Slippery Chicks.

      Now I feel all jealous.

      Yours unpraisedly,

      L Wolf

      

       My desk (tidy 1 with all sharp pencils pointing same way)

      Dear Mum and Dad,

      Very busy work today using brute instinct and beastly senses. Today I will copy out some pages from our notebooks so you can say, hmm, nice detecting you cubs.

       YFDA INTERVIEW NOTES

       (Privat keep out Smells or else)

       Case 1

      TIME

      Early

      DETECTIVE ON CASE

      N Bear

      TIME OF INTERVIEW

      Just after sun jumped up.

      WITNESS STATEMENT OF

      Mrs Duck, Tidynest, The Reeds, Lake Lemming (up the deepend).

      “I was bobbing up and down counting my babies like you do. I never seen feather nor beak of nobody, only that nice gingery man with a mask on his face and a sort of fur badge on his front. He was holding a bag of crumbs. Then I noticed all my fluffies was gorn. Gorn! Oh woe is me, ect.”

      PLAN

      Normus will go hunting, in Lake Lemming area, for gingery man with mask on (bit suspish) plus furry badge also 4 small ducks with fluff on.

       Case 2

      DETECTIVE ON CASE

      Yeller Wolf

      TIME OF INTERVIEW

      Just after snacktime

      WITNESS STATEMENT OF

      Mr and Mrs Lion,

      Anywhere we feel like, Parching Plain.

      “A travelling knifegrrrinder with squinty eyes came pushing his grrrrinder over our hunting grrround. We noticed he was wearing a fur brrrrooch and he smelled minty. He said he had a special offer on claw sharrrrpening, so we thought why not? It was just after he went that we noticed our small cub was not asleep in his patch of long grrrrass. We rrreckon he was cubnapped.”