That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 07, 2024

The sheltie wanted to make sure that Alice didn’t feed her head.

Moments before Lassie pushed away the chair. He didn’t give a s**t about the girl.

/// Alice Liddell climbs up to the case

on the wall which hides her secret place.

Only Collie Dog knows

this is where she keeps those

“special” photos which might cause disgrace.

I already gave you your treat. This is my treat.

The dog is trying to say that if she doesn’t give him a cookie also, he’ll rat on her.

Better gimme some treats; I know you pushed Timmy into the well.

Whatever the cabinet contains/

to conceal from the kid/

and keep carefully hid/

But in this house the dog is “the brains”..///

The object yon cabinet contains/

from which mother her daughter restrains/

is a vessel of brass/

Containing a mass/

Of ashes: Dad’s earthly remains.///

Though he’s gone to the “Great Beyond “/

Of his master the dog was quite fond/

But MaMA loves the cat/

And the dog resents that:/

Though he tries, Mother doesn’t respond…

…Or YOUR wolfsbane!

When Mom gave up smoking, we found all her hiding places and threw them out. (True story)

Lassie, run for help, my hand is stuck

Be very careful not to touch that bottle on the shelf. It belonged to your Uncle Tony Nelson, the astronaut. He found it on a desert island after splashing down nearby.

“We’ll go for walkies when I’ve finished snooping.”

Lassie ain’t no squealer.

Dolly decided to give Molly the collie a bath

Although knowing it might incur Mama’s wrath

She took down a jar of expensive perfume,

Dumped it into the tub in the bathroom

And by golly saw what wrath her Ma hath!

“Don’t even think about pulling that piece, Lenore. Face it kid, this isn’t an episode of Lassie”.

Now I have to move this one, please stop smelling out all the body parts I’ve hidden. No one misses that mean ol neighbor.

I used to keep my stash in a hollow tree across the road from our house. My dogs never told anyone.

This looks so real, so precise, it could be a photograph!!

Old Mother Hubbard, back when she was still just Young Sister Hubbard.

How is looking in that cabinet going to help me get Timmy out of the well?

“This where Mom keeps her little helpers! You want one?”

And just remember, I have the vet on speed dial. Snip snip…

What’s that Lassie? This is the well Tim is stuck in?

A Little Girl and her Sheltie or A Secret Place: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Charles Burton Barber" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Girl, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting, plus the auction house’s Description. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3317 (May 7, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the October 22, 2015, strip being the prior.

Go home Lassie…go home……get going Lassie……

“A Secret Place”, 1882

Old Mother Hubbard, the early years.

once we have her let’s, we are outta here Laddie!