Eye trouble

My boy’s mother’s husband was plastering a wall last week when a sack of lime fell off the scaffold and landed on his dog…

My boy’s mother’s husband was plastering a wall last week when a sack of lime fell off the scaffold and landed on his dog, which was lying at the foot of the ladder. The sack burst open and some lime went in the dog’s eye. For nearly a week the poor dog’s cloudy, pus-encrusted eye introduced a welcome little drama into their united family. Would Duke lose his sight in that eye? (And, if so, would he still be able to retrieve shot birds with only one eye?) Or would the vet’s unbelievably expensive eye-drops save it? The matter was still undecided when, working overtime to pay the vet’s bill, my boy’s mother’s husband was again on the scaffold plastering a wall, and a dollop of lime dropped off his trowel and fell into his eye.