Bunny Brown and his sister Sue and their trick dog

by Laura Lee Hope

“I wish we had Splash back,” sighed Bunny. “Then we’d have two dogs and a pony.”

“I think one dog and a pony is quite enough,” laughed his mother.

“But if we had Splash we could have a lot better circus,” went on Bunny.

“Are you going to give another circus?” asked his mother, for the children once did that, as I have related to you in one of these books.

“Yes, we’re going to have another circus and Patter and Toby will do tricks,” decided Bunny, while Sue nodded her head to show that she agreed with this.

“I’ll see if Patter will mind me now,” said Bunny. He called: “Come down, Patter!”

Down jumped the trick dog off Toby’s back. He wagged his tail, did Patter, and looked up into Bunny’s face as if asking what other tricks the little master wanted performed.

“See if he’ll jump back again,” suggested Mrs. Brown. “If he does, you’ll know it is one of Patter’s regular tricks to get on a pony’s back. You’ll know it wasn’t just an accident.”

So Bunny patted his pony’s back and called:

“Jump up, Patter! Jump up!”