Black Dan
Stevie’s father had a new job as a forest warden, so they moved to a tiny cottage on the edge of a thick forest.At here,they met Black Dan, which was a racing greyhound left by Old Billy, the former forest warden.
The forester told them that Old Billy had seven greyhounds ever and Black Dan was the seventh.Stevie begged his father to keep it.
The first night was spooky.Stevie heard a weird noise which sounded like a dog howling and he also saw six pairs of red, fiery eyes in the forest through his bedroom window.Black Dan, the seventh was desperate to get out when he heard the howl.
The next day, Stevie told his father about his strange experience but his father didn’t care about it.Then Stevie took Black Dan the seventh for a run in the forest and they met the forester.He told him that the other Black Dans were killed by Old Billy just because they were too old to win the races.Steven start to doubt whether the six pairs of eyes were the ghost dogs.
At that night, the howl appeared again.Black Dan the seventh ran into the forest crazily.But soon, Stevie found that he was surrounded by six ghost dogs and Black Dan the seventh.He was so scared and tried to escape.He ran into an old mine but the dogs
were still following.He kept running until he reached the very edge of a mine shaft.But he couldn\'t stop himself then.Just when he was falling down the hole, Black Dan sopped him and pulled him back.Then he got up and went out of the tunnel and got home with Black Dan guarding him all the way.Black Dan became the hero who had saved his life.
I feel there is one poibility that the other six Black Dans didn’t die because they didn’t eat the poisoned meat or didn’t eat enough poisoned meat to kill themselves.Instead, they hid themselves somewhere in the forest and waited one day to revenge.
Stevie is the main character of the story.His kindne made him keep the dog.He was curious so he parted his bedroom curtains and saw six fiery eyes.His mind of ghost dogs showed he was good at imagining.He showed his bravery when the tough words came out from him mouth.
After all, if Stevie did not have so much excellent personalities, this story would not be so attractive.
And this story tells us to be kind to animals.
