21st November 2012
Last year, in France, in No Man's Land, a group of British archaeologists came across a plane half-buried in the ground. It was a British WWII plane and the locals that lived near No Man's Land, two miles away, had told stories of a dog-ghost barking for help, years after the war had ended.
So the archaeologists decided to investigate more into this legend.
In the plane, they found a sketch-book with over fifty pages filled with a Jack Russell dog.
Over and over again, the artist drew the same dog, often portraying the dog in different angles. This dog was black and white with a little hint of brown in its face.
And often, there was a name handwritten in the corner of the page, so small that you could hardly see it. It was one word:
SCAMP.
The archaeologists assumed it was the name of the handsome Jack Russell puppy. But these pictures, they showed the whole life of the dog. The news was put out, asking anyone who knew something about this dog, to come forward.
Nothing, no, not a single thing for five months.
Then, a man named Jack O'Brien, an Irish soldier who fought in WWII stepped forward, claiming to know something about this particular dog.
Jack died two months ago, aged ninety. So his favourite sketch of Scamps was hung up in the town that he was born in, in the clock tower so everyone could see Scamps.
This is the story of Scamp's life.