"What? The policeman!" cried Sprite. "Why he isn't chasing him."
"Of course he isn't," Polly replied, "but Gyp is so afraid of any one of the policemen in this town, that he runs screaming just like that the minute he sees one."
Together they watched, until Gyp was out of sight.
"They say folks here in Avondale are going to make Gyp go to school," said Polly, "but I shouldn't think they could do it, and if they could, just think how he'd act!"
"I can't think," said Sprite, her eyes dancing, "but I know I'll like to watch him the first day."
"We couldn't watch him if we wanted to because he wouldn't be in our room," Polly said.
"Well, then he'll be above us, because he's bigger than we are," said
Sprite. Polly laughed as she said;
"Oh, no he won't. He's never been to school but a few months, as big as he is. He'll be in some class below us."
"Why, then he'll be with little children," said Sprite, "and won't he look funny when he's such a big boy?"
"Well, that's where he'll have to be, if they can make him go!"