Ali Bark-Bark and the 40 Thieves

One day, when Ali Bark-Bark, Guard Dog Extraordinaire, was asleep alone in the house, he was awoken by a clatter coming from the front stoop. It turned out to be forty thieves trying to break into his house. They pounded on the door and yelled things like, “Open Sesame!” Ali Bark-Bark knew his name wasn’t Sesame, but he decided to be nice and open the door anyway.

The forty thieves pounded into the house and stole forty things. One stole the TV, one stole the VCR, one stole the computer, one stole the microwave, one stole the Van Gogh painting, one stole the Monet painting, and one stole the toilet plunger. That was only seven things, but the eighth thief stole Ali Bark-Bark, so he never got to see what the other 32 thieves stole.

Ali Bark-Bark thought he was surely doomed, because the eighth thief threw him into a dirty smelly house and went away. Ali thought for sure that he would never get out of the house alive; he would surely starve to death first; but it just so happened that the eighth thief’s kitchen had not been cleaned in months. So Ali Bark-Bark had a feast from the garbage can and didn’t starve to death at all. When the thief returned home an hour later, Ali Bark-Bark first decided he had jumped to conclusions about dying of starvation, and then annoyed the thief by pooping on the floor and howling all night and digging holes in the garden, until finally the thief decided to return Ali to his home.

When his owner opened the door, she saw a thief with her pesky and destructive dog firmly in his arms. She was so annoyed with him for returning her dog! She was also quite irritated about the loss of her toilet plunger. Luckily, none of the thieves had stolen the recycling bin, so she invited the thief inside while she dug around in it, searching for his reward.

Turns out his reward was a smack over the nose with a rolled-up newspaper.

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