Miss Milly’s Day Out

Miss Milly was sat in the office reading her magazine, the door opened and in came J.D.Lula ‘Good morning Miss Milly, see you are hard at work’ Miss Milly ignored the remark and carried on reading, shortly after the phone rang ‘Yes this is her talking’ said Miss Milly who continued ‘Oh my! That’s wonderful! Thank you very much!’ at this she put the phone down.

‘Well… that’s me for the day! You can look after the office Lula…’ said Miss Milly

‘Why?! Where are you going?’ asked Lula

‘I have just won a competition; I am getting a free day at a luxury five star Spa including lunch’ answered Miss Milly

‘Oh I thought it would be something interesting like say…  a seminar on Alien abduction’ said Lula

‘No it is much better than that……………goodbye!!!’ said Miss Milly and in a flash she was gone.

At the spa Miss Milly was met by the Manager ‘Congratulations on winning the competition Miss Milly! We will now take you down to the spa for your pampering session, then you can come to the restaurant to finish with your free lunch. We hope you enjoy your stay!’ at this she was lead down to the spa.

Several hours later Miss Milly returned from the spa looking and feeling wonderful ‘Please Miss Milly, follow me’ said the waiter ‘I will take you to your table.´ Miss Milly followed the waiter and was sat by a window overlooking the grounds ‘Todays special is fresh Salmon’ said the waiter.

‘That sounds delightful’ answered Miss Milly ‘and may I have some water please’ she asked

‘Certainly’ said the waiter ‘fizzy or flat?’

‘Flat please all those bubbles get up my nose!’ Miss Milly replied.

Miss Milly sat looking out the window when she saw some movement in the bushes, she followed the movement and there it was, a fox was tip toeing between bushes, it then ran quickly and hid behind a tree, at this the waiter arrived with the water Miss Milly thanked him and continued to look out the window but did not see the fox again.

The waiter returned to Miss Milly’s table ‘Would madam like the soup of the day?’

‘What is it?’ enquired Miss Milly

‘Marrowbone’ answered the waiter

‘Sounds delightful’ answered Miss Milly

The soup was brought and Miss Milly sipped on it whilst looking out the window and suddenly there was the fox this time with a large Salmon in its mouth, it tiptoed between the bushes again and then was gone.

The waiter came back to the table ‘Miss Milly I am sorry to inform you but the Salmon’

Miss Milly interrupted ‘is off the menu’

The waiter somewhat surprised said ‘yes… but how did you know?’  

‘I watched it disappear over there’ she pointed to where the bushes were, at this she took her napkin and wiped the soup from her face ‘Excuse me, I shall go and return it’ at this Miss Milly bounded over to the shrubs, she sniffed the shrubs and then the ground ‘Mmm definitely Fox such a distinctive smell as J.D.Lula would say: eau de fox’

Miss Milly followed the scent soon she was down by the river, the scent disappeared there, she thought to herself ‘oh no the fox has crossed the river shall I follow? But it will ruin my hair; still a crime has been committed so I must solve it!’ At this she entered the river and swimming against the current reached the other side, she shook herself to get the excess water of ‘gosh that has woke me up’ she thought, quickly she picked up the scent and followed it, she came across a row of brambles,  she look around but could not see a way around so she climbed right in and forced herself through, she emerged with twigs and leafs covering her previously immaculate hair.

Miss Milly continued to follow the scent when she came across a dip in the land, she got to the top and looked down, there was the Fox with the salmon, ‘you have my lunch there’ said Miss Milly.

The fox looked up somewhat shocked ‘how did you find me?’ the fox asked

‘I am Miss Milly of the Dudley Dog Detective Agency; it is my job to find things’ said Miss Milly ‘I watched you as you slyly sneaked up and stole the salmon, now give it back’

‘it’s not just for me’ the fox said as it whistled and then five young fox cubs came running to her ‘mummy you have brought some food, well done’

Miss Milly said ‘well I suppose your needs are greater than ours so I will let you keep the fish and feed your family’

‘Thank you’ said the fox ‘times are hard for us now, we are persecuted everywhere’

Miss Milly answered ‘well enjoy the meal……….just one thing, can I ask you a question?’

‘Yes’ replied the fox

‘Why when you get in a hen house do you kill all the hens but only take one to eat?’

The fox thought for a moment and said ‘let me tell you a story……..one day there was really stormy weather and lots of rain. A frog and a scorpion were stuck on a little island in the middle of a river and the water was getting higher and higher, soon they would both be swept away, so the scorpion says to the frog ‘let me jump on your back and you swim to the other side and save us both. Anyway the frog says ´but you will sting me!´, the scorpion says ´no I won’t… that would be silly!´ So the frog says ´ok jump on my back´, this the scorpion does and they get into the water with the frog swimming franticly, half way across the frog feels a sting, he looks back and sees that the scorpion has stung him, ´why did you do that?´ the frog asked, the scorpion replied ´it’s in my nature…’   

Miss Milly smiled and left. Once she got back to the spa, the manager met her ‘Oh Miss Milly… look at you look!!!!´ She was covered in mud with twigs sticking out of her hair ‘I take it you did not find the salmon?’

Miss Milly just shook her head and smiled… the manager said to her ‘at least you tried!’

Miss Milly answered ‘it’s in my nature’

The manager told Miss Milly to go back to the spa where they would clean her up and give her the treatments again.

The end