“Yes,” answered Bunny, without looking up, for often delivery men asked that question.
The next moment, however, Sue cried:
“Oh, Toby has come back! Toby has come back!”
CHAPTER IV
TOBY AND PATTER
Bunny Brown was so surprised by what his sister called, about Toby the pony coming back, that the little boy let go of Patter’s hind legs, which had been raised in the air to try to make him walk on his front legs.
Down fell Patter’s legs, so suddenly that if Patter had been a little boy or girl I’m sure he would have grunted, or perhaps he might even have cried. But as he was a dog, though a trick dog, Patter whined a little and then barked:
“Bow-wow-wuff!”
Perhaps that meant he didn’t like to be treated so. But Bunny did not stop to think about the new trick dog just then. Bunny ran after Sue, who was heading for the gate, outside of which stood a man with a pony and a cart.
The man had gotten out of the cart and was now looking at Bunny Brown and his sister Sue and their trick dog.
“If Mr. Brown lives here,” said the man, “I reckon this is his pony, for it’s where I was told to leave it.”