A number of readers have commented on the Timmy scene from UP ON THE WOOF TOP, the Chet and Bernie Christmas novel that takes a Dickensian approach. (IT’S A WONDERFUL WOOF takes the Caravaggesque.) Here’s a bit of it:

And maybe there was more back and forth like that, but by then I’d leaned over a bit and laid my head on Timmy’s lap. The strangest thing, really, like I was the one in need.