“Oh, where can Patter be?” cried Bunny and Sue.
CHAPTER XX
LOOKING FOR PATTER
“Children! Children! Come in to breakfast!” called Mrs. Brown, as she heard Bunny and Sue out in the woodshed.
“We can’t come!” Bunny said.
“Why not?” his mother wanted to know.
“’Cause Patter is lost!” replied Sue.
“Nonsense! He isn’t lost! I guess he’s just hiding from you for fun,” said Mr. Brown, who was already sitting down to the table, as he was in a hurry to get down to his dock. The lobster boats were expected in that morning.
“Patter is lost!” exclaimed Bunny. “I locked him in here last night, and when I opened the door this morning he wasn’t here. He’s gone!”
Catching the note of tears in Bunny’s voice and knowing that if Bunny cried Sue would do the same, also feeling that something might have happened, Mr. Brown went out to the shed.
As Bunny had reported, there was no trick dog there to greet his friends. Whitefeet, the pet kitten that Sue had adopted as her own, rubbed up against the legs of the children as if asking where Patter could be, but no dog was in sight.