CHAPTER V
A RUNAWAY
Not knowing what trick it was, if such it should prove to be, that Patter planned to do next, Bunny could not answer his sister’s question. And then, as both children looked at the trick dog, Patter suddenly jumped to the broad, fat back of Toby, who was still hitched to the pony cart. Right on the pony’s back jumped the dog.
“Oh, look at that!” cried Sue again.
“That’s a fine trick!” said Bunny. “We must make him do that in the show we’re going to give. But I wonder why he did it? I didn’t tell him to.”
“Nor I, either,” said Sue. “Oh, how cute he looks!”
And indeed Patter did look “cute” on Toby’s back. But this was not all the trick. For suddenly the dog, instead of standing on all four feet, gave a sort of flop and there he was, standing on his front feet with his hind paws up in the air.
Bunny and Sue were so surprised they hardly knew what to say. They just stood there, looking at Patter standing on his front paws upon the back of Toby, the Shetland pony.
As for Toby, he did not in the least seem to mind it. He turned his head a little way, glanced at the dog on his back, and then seemed to think it was all right, for he made no move toward shaking Patter off.
“Oh, how do you s’pose he did that?” asked Sue.
“I don’t know,” answered Bunny. “He just did it—that’s all.”