Bunny Brown and his sister Sue and their trick dog

by Laura Lee Hope

PATTER LOVED CHILDREN AND WAS DELIGHTED TO PERFORM FOR THEM.

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“That’s one of the tricks I’m going to teach Patter for the show we’ll have,” said Bunny, after a while.

“What show?” Sue wanted to know.

“Oh, we’ll get up a performance,” said Bunny, as if nothing could be easier. “Maybe it’ll be a circus like the one we had once, or maybe we’ll give a show in the opera house. But we’ll do something to show off Patter, and I’ll teach him to drive Toby.”

The children had a good time riding around in the pony cart, and Toby seemed so fresh and strong, as if willing to trot for miles and miles, that Bunny and Sue really didn’t want to turn around and go back home. But they did at last, and to their surprise they saw their father at the gate.

“Oh, Daddy!” cried Bunny, as Sue guided the pony and cart through the gate, “what makes you come home so early?” For it was not time for supper yet, and the boy knew his father did not close the office on the boat and fish dock until nearly supper time.

“I came home to ask your mother if she had anything good to eat that she wanted to send the poor man in the hospital,” answered Mr. Brown. “The old man who wants to find a circus,” he explained.

“Are you going to the hospital?” asked Sue. “May I come?”