The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True : Waywiser Press : 9781904130833 : 1904130836 : 01 Oct 2015 : Poetry. When Kirby the sneaky, dog-genius steals the hole Arlo dug in the yard, social order begins to break down. The ants get lazy. The brook dries up. The dragonfly has engine trouble. Kirby faces grave, injurious peril in getting it back and restoring cosmic harmony. Reflecting upon the hole's eerie influence, he contemplates spider webs, Newton, The Old West, Scottish history, Templars, the Roundtable Knights, the existence of dragons, and the nature of time, itself, on the way to devising his Theory of Something, The Downhole Effect. The award-winning author of The Silent Partner, Errors in the Script, and A MOST MARVELOUS PIECE OF LUCK is once again at the top of his game in this wickedly inventive, dazzlingly written and uproariously funny book. "Greg Williamson can do anything. A 1,200-plus-line narrative poem? Child's play. About a dog that filches another dog's