Bunny Brown and his sister Sue and their trick dog

by Laura Lee Hope

Just then Patter gave a bark, as he always did when he had finished his “prayers.”

“Does your dollie bark like that?” asked Mr. Brown of the little lame girl.

She looked at him in a shy manner, and then smiled as she answered:

“Dollies can’t bark!”

“I know that, my dear!” laughed Mr. Brown. “I just asked you for fun.”

“Well, this dog is fun!” laughed the boy with the broken arm.

Then Patter did more of his tricks. At the one where he marched around with a stick for a gun, Mr. Stern smiled and asked:

“Did you ever teach him to drive a horse?”

“No, but he can ride on my Toby pony’s back,” answered Bunny.

“Well, if he can do that I think he can drive your pony hitched to the cart,” said the old man. “Try it some day. Put the dog up on the seat and tie the lines in a loop around his neck. Then teach him to put his right paw on the right rein when he wants the pony to turn to the right, and to put his left paw on the left rein, to pull on that when he wants Toby to turn to the left.”