Episode 1
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Hello, my name is Watson. I’m a dog. I’m not sure what breed. It doesn’t matter to me. I’m just happy to have a name! I’m named after somebody famous. Famous in books that is. The side kick of the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. That’s good, because my owner Aileen is a bit of a detective and I help her sort out the clues, like with this Lost Book…
(By the way, the title of the book I’m reading comes from a Sherlock Holmes story. Do I actually read books? Of course! I’m a very dogged reader. But I also sniff them and lick them! I’ve even chewed a few books. Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince is a good chew.)
Now, this is important. I’m a bit different from other dogs. Aileen says ‘Here Watson! Sit Watson! Think Watson!’ It’s that ‘Think Watson!’ that makes me special.
Do you know what helps me think the most? I see things. I hear things. I can hear things miles away! But the most useful thing that helps me think is my nose! Like every other dog I smell the world. But I’m a bit like those dogs the police use. When I smell something suspicious – like a rat – I nudge Aileen’s elbow so that she knows, that I’ve smelt a rat. Or it could be something fishy. I use my right paw for ‘rat’ and left paw for ‘fishy’.
A couple of things you should know. One, a wet nose sniffs far better than a dry one. And two, a dog’s nose has twenty times as many primary receptor cells as a human’s nose.
What does that mean? It means this. Take these cup cakes that Aileen loves so much. When she smells a cup cake she smells chocolate. When I smell a cup cake I smell
It’s like my brain is swimming in chocolate. AND I can smell whoever’s little fingers have been at it. There might be a clue there…
But did you know that chocolate isn’t good for dogs. So don’t ever feed any chocolate to one. They’ll be sick. And dog sick is not nice, no no no, or in my language ‘narf!’.
Dogs prefer bones. Mmmm. And there’s an interesting bone here! It’s a very big bone. It’s the femur or thigh bone of something huge. When I sniff it a picture comes into my head of an animal as big as a double-decker bus. It’s a dinosaur! The dinosaur is making a deafening noise. So, that’s not much help.
But what about these dinosaur footprints! Now, everyone’s feet smell. Some worse than others! But a dinosaur’s feet smell particularly interesting and that’s because they cover so much ground. So there’s a whiff of this and a whiff of that. And sometimes a whiff of something suspicious! But you know what strikes me? The dinosaur footprint seems to be appearing all over the place. Even as a logo on Aileen’s mobile phone. What’s going on!?
The Lost Book is an animated web series where you wrote the plot.
