"Down in the town by the butcher's shop door, sat Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy." Hairy Maclary, the cheekiest dog in town, is waiting for a tasty bone from the butcher.

He trots off home with his prize, planning on devouring it in private.

But he reckons without the procession of his friends, from Bottomley Potts who's covered in spots to Schnitzel von Krumm with very low tum.

But Hairy Maclary takes them on such a circuitous route that one by one he loses them, until he's alone at last to go home with all of his bone.