I WAS so pleased to see in your Lost and Found columns that the 'Missing black dog' has now been found by little Emma (March 30).

After what seemed like many weeks of heart-rending advertising, I feel I can now disclose, without upsetting the owners, where he was hidden; in the dusty old pages of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. So, will little Emma be getting her promised reward in "pieces of eight"?

Dale Minks,

Ancress Walk, York.

Updated: 10:18 Saturday, April 02, 2005