But the boy said, "No, you must not come home with us. We do not know you.
We have a big dog in the yard at home. Rex would kill you, if you came to our house."
XXXIII
BAD BLOWS
The one thing in their minds now was, how to get home once more.
They could never agree who was most to blame that they had run away.
Mew-Mew said that all the blame lay with Bow-Wow; and Bow-Wow said that Mew-Mew was quite as much to blame as he was, and more so.
Mew-Mew could not bear this.
Weak as she was, she made a spring at Bow-Wow, and gave him such a box on the ears, that he, being very weak too, fell right down.