Still Black

After daddy gave John a kiss goodnight, he took Little Bill downstairs to clean his cage.  As we passed in the hallway, Daddy whispered to me he thought he was dead.  So I went to start reading John his book and daddy came back up with Little Bill's bus.  He broke the news to John..."daddy, I was going to buy Little Bill something...can we get a new one...one of those little ones that won the hamster race...or  how about one like Hammy?"  So Daddy told him we would put him in a box and bury him in the backyard tomorrow.  "Daddy, how will Little Bill go to heaven?"