And Another Hilarious Conversation

From the book
The Case of the Missing Bird Dog
By John R. Erickson

The Setting:
Hank and Drover are looking for Plato, who is a highly trained Bird Dog.
Along the way, they start to get chased by an angry mother hog, and get separated.
Slim the Cowboy comes in and chases away the mother hog and Hank goes looking for Drover.

I glanced around for Drover. At first I saw no sign of him, but then my keen eyes picked up a flash of white on the other side of the thicket. I moved to get a better look and saw...... hmmmm... the hiney and stub tail of a dog sticking up, only the front half of his body was.... missing.
Holy smokes had the wild hog taken a slash at little Drover and cut him in half? That certainly expected to be the case. I rushed over to the spot, expecting to see a ghastly scene, with hair and gore with puddles of blood.
Hank: Drover, don't move, you've been cut in half! Lie still and don't try to talk. Where's your head?
Drover: I'm not sure, everything's dark.
Hank: You're losing consciousness. Fight it, Drover, Try to stay awake. I've got to find your head. Do you have any idea where it went?
Drover: Well...
Hank: Just lie still and don't talk. If I can find your head, maybe we can stick you back together and save you.
Drover: I think my head's in here with me.
Hank: Oh, good. For a minute there I was afraid it had rolled off somewhere. Don't give up hope, son. Modern medicine performs miracles every day.
Drover: Help! The darkness is closing in!
Hank: Fight it, Drover. Don't give up. Can you give me  some hints? If your head is there with you, just tell me where you are.
Drover: Well, lets see. I think I'm in a hole.
HUH?
It was then that I noticed... did you think that Drover had been cut in half? Ha, ha. No, if he'd been cut if half, we wouldn't have been carrying on a conversation, see, because...
He'd dug the top half of his body into a sand hole, is what he'd done, and to a casual observer it might have appeared that...well...the lower half of his body was just... standing there. Without a had. Or shoulders or front legs.
End of Chapter.