At the moment, our kailyard like a just awake baby opens its bright eyes agreeably and get a load of the spectacle of the garden curiously in the morning.
And then they scampered in all directions, for Toto had awakened from his sleep, and seeing all these mice around him he gave one bark of delight and jumped right into the middle of the group.
The nose was stubby and shapeless, the mouth lopsided and full of misshapen yellow teeth the size of half-bricks; the small eyes, were a muddy greenish-brown and just now were half-gummed together with sleep.
Sam closed his diary, shoved it into the duffel bag with the rest of his stuff, got into bed, turned out the light, and lay there wondering why a dog always stretches when it wakes up.
When Charles came home at midnight, she seemed to have just awakened, and as he made a noise undressing, she complained of a headache, then asked carelessly what had happened that evening.