Lassie Was a Lad

While we were talking about bucket list things down at the barbershop, Wilkie Witt told us about his list of goals as a boy and how he marked one off real early. It was to kiss a movie actress. And he did. It seems as a young boy he had gone to California to visit a cousin out there. His uncle worked in the movies as a gofer of some description and got them a visit to the Weatherwax dog training facility. There he got to meet the first Lassie and received a dog kiss from the movie star. Millard Millstone, the one we call the walking encyclopedia, popped Wilkie's bubble when he informed us all that the first Lassie was a boy dog named of Pal. Wilkie didn't believe it. "Why would they name a boy dog Lassie?" he asked. "I find that question a little ironical," said Millard. "Since your wife is named Bill."
I, of course, headed to the library and it seems Millard was right, the first movie Lassie was a lad.

Tales of Harper, short stories and poems about the fictional town of Harper, Mississippi is available on Amazon Kindle