GOSSIP CORNER — all the news that's barely fit to print.
Boyd was found this morning asleep in the bakery doorway, wrapped — witnesses insist, wrapped — in a blanket that nobody will admit to owning.
The baker says she did not put it there. The miller says he did not put it there. A small girl with flour on her nose says the blanket "just looked cold, and then Boyd looked warm, and then everybody was happy," which is not an explanation, but is, witnesses agree, a perfectly good summary.
Boyd himself has declined to comment, beyond wagging his tail at a volume described as "grateful." He was last seen trotting home with the blanket still around his shoulders, looking, in the words of one onlooker, "like a dog who has had a very good morning indeed."
The blanket, for the record, has been returned to the bakery, washed, and folded. Boyd is welcome back any time, the baker says, blanket or no blanket.