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Peking Duck

If he'd ducked at the peak the arrow would have missed...

[PoorMuttly]

...according to Esteemed Muttly Ancestor...he was so drunk that, while relieving himself in the Sacred Meadow, where outraged villagers would not persue (knew almost all the tricks...)...that is when grandpa bit him in the privates (good dog) and he fell backwards on his accomplice, who happened to be holding their recently-stolen arrow...jabbing it into both of them. Explains the blood on his back, and arrow, too.

Forensic scientists. What a clueless bunch of maroons...sometimes. Muttly know lots of real, even famous scientists, and Muttly like...they pat him on the head all the time.