To the Ramparts, Mon Ami!

 

Neither is of average size for their species.

Each in fact is wildly undersized yet

neither is lacking in the capacity and the

will to tackle physical challenges in 

the ordinary course of their daily actions.

She of slim girth and even less height

given her advanced age and he entirely

attached to her presence reflect in fact

that droll observation by some wit that

most dogs begin to resemble the nature

and appearance of their humans. Which

is what the elderly woman had herself 

since noticed in habits of little moment

or significance other than what she felt

missing was a sense of discriminatory

proportion. As when she grappled with the 

awkward mechanism of her old ironing 

board and the little dog sprang into action

digging its tiny teeth into the steel frame

snarling and warning the suddenly animate 

threatening object his human was not to be 

trifled with in his studied guardian presence.