I was having a tug of war with the wandering Mobi, who was yet again brought back home on a rope around his neck by two highly disgruntled villagers. I heard this plaintiff yelps, and recognizing it to be coming from Mobi, I hastily put on my shoes in case I had to yet again run the streets of Haarlem in persuit of an errant animal.
The most funny sight met my eyes, and I just stood laughing and laughing, as down the dusty road came a whole group of people, babbling and screaming, and using some pretty obscene language, again dragging the unco-operative Mobi, but Mobi was not giving in easily, having had some trouble in escaping again, and when he saw me and realized that prison yet again awaited him, he made a last desperate effort to escape, by just plonking his backside down, and anchoring his oversized paws in the rocky road, all the time yelping with gusto so that everybody could hear how badly treated he was, and come to his rescue.
I walked up to where this little drama was playing off, but wished that I had thought of putting on a gas mask when the mottly group who had captured Mobi, and was all trying at once to tell me of all the things he did wrong, descended on me! As all the strong and able men were at work on the farms, it left only the boozers and loafers in the village during the day, and this group that was now almost flooring me with their wine breaths and rancid body smells, having I presumed, never splashed an ounce of water over that bodies in many a long day!
As this lot all wanted to make me hear about what Mobi did to them personally, and me almost fainting from the alcohol loaded breaths, my brain was in top gear trying to think of how to get the dog inside the yard rapidly, before I expired in the middle of the road. As Mobi just loved eating, and would keep on eating until he bursted, I decided to fetch my dinner pork chop and try to lure him into the house, but just then I saw Jan's car coming down the road, and I sighed deeply and happily, as this bally burden would be taken away from me!
Nina's homecoming, bringing the new baby called Emil, was not at all the beautiful affair it should have been, as Jan had to just park the car and went to rescue the villagers from the now enraged Mobi, who, on seeing his people and realizing that Jan was quite capable of getting him back into the yard, made one enormous push for freedom, and set of at great speed back to the village where much fun could be had, Jan at his heels!
I helped Nina out of the car, and cried when I had the first glimpse of this baby, and stood looking at the small bundle, a strange, sad feeling taking hold of me, a feeling that I just could not get rid of!