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1 The Dog Of Pompeii A Skeleton 1 Eighteen hundred years passed. Scientists were restoring the ancient city. Much had already been brought to light. Many things were beginning to appear. 2 “Come here,” A director called to his assistant. “I think it must have been a bakery. And here’s a curious thing. What do you think I found? The skeleton of a dog!” “Amazing!” said his assistant. “You’d think a dog would have had sense enough to run away at the time. And what is that flat thing he’s holding between his teeth?” “It’s a raisin-cake almost two thousand years old! What made him want it at such a moment? “I wonder,” murmured the assistant. Tito And His Dog 1 Tito and his dog Bimbo lived under one of the walls in Pompeii which was one of the liveliest of the old Latin towns. They really didn’t live there; they just slept there. They lived anywhere. 2 Tito was blind from birth. He was known to everyone in the poorer area. But no one could tell where he came from. As long as people could remember seeing Tito (about 12 or 13 years old), they had seen Bimbo. Bimbo had never left his side. He was not only dog, but nurse, pillow, playmate, mother and father to Tito. 3 Did Bimbo never leave Tito? Bimbo did trust Tito alone exactly three times a day. It was a fixed routine: Early in the morning, while Tito was still dreaming, Bimbo would disappear. When Tito woke up, Bimbo would be sitting quietly at his side with a fresh-baked bread. At noon, they would return to the inner gate. Tito would curl up on the corner (almost like a dog) and go to sleep, while Bimbo, looking quite important (almost like a boy) would disappear again. In half an hour he’d be back with their lunch. Sometimes it would be a piece of fruit or a piece of meat. But sometimes there would be one rich cake with raisins, which Tito liked so much. At supper-time the same thing happened. Whether there was much or little, hot or cold, food was always there. So t