Just then the doctor came back with a nice warm hot-water bag, which he put close against Zip's stomach, and then he wrapped him up snugly in the shawl once again.
"There, little fellow, you will be all right in the morning. Go to sleep now and forget all your trouble. But if you hadn't gotten to me when you did, you would have been a little angel dog by this time. The poison was working so fast that I could not have saved you had you come twenty minutes later. By the way, that is a smart friend you have, and he has good lungs, I think, by the noise he was making. He must have awakened all our neighbors. If he is around in the morning, I will give him a good hot breakfast. I never would have known you were home and sick if he had not kicked up such a racket, for you were far too ill to make noise enough to awaken me," and patting Zip on the head, the doctor crawled into his bed and was soon fast asleep.
Zip was about to fall into a doze when he heard a noise down on the front porch. Listening intently, the voices of Tabby and his friend, Rats, came floating in the window, and he knew by the soft murmur they made that they were talking in a most friendly manner and not fighting with each other.
"I am glad that Tabby found Rats, for now he can tell her all that has happened to me," thought Zip.
The warm milk and the hot-water bottle were beginning to soothe Zip and make him feel comfortable, and in fifty winks he was fast asleep and snoring.
And so once more Zip's adventures ended happily for him.
THE BILLY WHISKERS SERIES
Trade Mark
By FRANCES TREGO MONTGOMERY
The wonderful tale of a wonderful goat. Billy Whiskers is full of pranks and good fun. He makes hosts of friends wherever he goes. Every child knows about his adventures told by Mrs. Montgomery in the popular Billy Whiskers Books.