The two dogs Skip and Scrap

The two dogs Skip and Scrap, greeted one another with joyful enthusiasm. Hey were from the same litter, though they not look similar: Skip was a brown boy dog and Scrap a small black female. Skip was a typical village dog, lean and suspicious, whereas the city-dwelling Scrap was plump and contended.
It was ten years since Gwenda had picked out of a litter of mongrels puppies, on the floor of Cari’s bedroom in the wool merchant’ big house, the day Cari’s mother died. Since then Gwenda and Caris had become close friends. They met only two or three times a year, but they shared their secrets. Gwenda felt she could tell Caris everything and the information would never get back to her parents or anyone else in Wigleigh. She assumed Caris felt the same: because Gwenda did not talk to any other Kingsbridge girls, here could not be risk of letting something slip in a careless moment.
Gwenda arrived in Kingsbridge on the Friday of Fleece Fair week. Her father, Joby, went to the fairground I front of the cathedral to sell the furs of squirrels he had trapped in the forest near Wigleigh. Gwenda went straight to Cari’s house and the two dogs were reunited.
From the book ‘World without end’ by Ken Follet