Ruskin, Fla., April 11, 2011

News and Tales announced today that the famous Hobo Hudson has agreed to come out of retirement and assume the position of Barker for News and Tales, a start-up website.

Hobo is quoted as barking, “Mom’s writing is still excellent, and the humans love it. However, it still appears blah to us dogs, and I plan to enliven her website with stories of interest to us dogs and hope to increase the daily readership by a factor of 50 within a few issues.”

After issuing this brief barkment and giving his mom some quick instructional barks, he rushed off to the local steak house to meet his dad for a celebratory dinner complete with beef beer and marrow bone pie for dessert.