He and Rags were very happy in their new home.
Rags was getting fat now, and every Saturday he had a fine bath.
At least Tommy said it was a fine bath, but Rags did not seem to agree with him.
"Bow-wow," he would say, when he saw the big tub full of water, "I must run and hide."
But Tommy always found him, and Rags always had his bath.
When school began in September, Grandma Hall took Tommy to school.
He had a new suit of clothes, a new pair of boots, and a pretty cap to match his suit.
The school was two miles from the farm, so that the first morning he rode in the carriage with Grandma Hall because she could not walk so far.
Every day after that Tommy walked to school in the morning and home again at night.
He carried his dinner in a new pail, and he always found something very good in that pail when he opened it at noon.