Tall Tales

Dear Sir,

We wish to stop at your hotel, we will book in for a week,

If you can only grant me, the permission that I seek

To allow my dog to stay with me, each evening, in my room.

Though I realise I'm biased, he is well behaved and groomed.

He's the only family I have left, we're sad if we're alone.

We have planned to leave the thirteenth, can you let me know by phone?

He rang back, and said,

"Mate, I've run pubs for many years, and I cannot recall

One dog stealing sheets or towels or pictures ...