“Ye-es,” agreed Purt.
“Then if you had kept still about it, I could have scared that farmer into holding his dog in leash. Just as glad the brute was shot, though. He’ll be tamed for a while, I bet!”
“It is too bad the dog was trained so badly,” Laura said. “It is not his fault that he was taught to attack people.” 176
“Well!” grunted Short and Long. “If he’d grabbed me, I reckon he’d have eaten me up before anybody could have helped.”
“You had no business on that man’s land,” said Laura, admonishingly. “And you did sauce him.”
“Ugh! who’d have thought he was so mean?” growled Short and Long.
“Bet you have a care next time,” said Lance, grinning. “But who do you suppose that fellow with the gun was? I’d really like to meet him again.”
“Good sort, whoever he is,” Short and Long agreed.
“No farmer.”
“Not much! He was city-dressed all right.”