From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:

Next week Uncle Milton is coming back to live with us but he is not bringing Tom or Jerry. The Airedales are going to a farm in the country. He asked me if I’d rather have the Airedales than him and I said I’d rather have him but only why couldn’t he bring them with him and could we visit them in the country sometime? He said that he would try to arrange it. It will be fun having Uncle Milton. All his friends are jolly men who talk about nothing but dogs – oh! – sometimes horses.