ACTF News
November 5th 2021
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The Story of Toff

My Great Grandma is 96 years old. She is a little bit blind and can’t hear properly and she has white curly hair. Her mind and memory are excellent and she loves telling me true stories about her life in the olden days and I’m going to tell you one now.

When my Great Grandma was a little girl she lived in Ascot in Brisbane in a wooden house with a large veranda and a wooden fence. It didn’t have busy roads around it like it does today and the shops were along the street. My Great Grandma had a dog called Toff. Toff was a red setter. He was just lovely with thick auburn fur.

Toff must have been very well trained because Great Grandma’s mum could send Toff down to the butchers all by himself with a basket with money and a list in it. He would trot down the road carrying the basket in his mouth. He’d go to the butchers and collect the meat and trot all the way back. Then he’d get a scone for being so good and NOT eating any meat.

One day Great Grandma and her little friend where walking back home with Toff from the butchers when a photographer stopped his car and asked if he could take their photo, so they smiled and were on the front page of the newspaper. The title said Toff, Gentleman That He Is, Carries the Basket, and that’s the end of the TRUE story.

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