In a second up jumped Patter again, sitting calmly on Toby’s back and looking from Sue to Bunny as if asking:
“Is there anything more you want me to do?”
This time the dog did not stand on his front legs. Perhaps he thought he had done enough of that hard trick.
“Down!” cried Bunny, and the trick dog leaped down.
“He’s a good minder,” said Sue.
“Yes, he minds very well,” agreed Mrs. Brown.
The news that Bunny Brown and his sister Sue had a new trick dog soon spread all through the neighborhood, and many boy and girl chums of the brother and sister called to see Patter. They also wanted to see Toby when Sue explained that the pony had a lot of new hair in place of the old that had fallen out in his sickness.
The other boys and girls were allowed to make Patter do some of his tricks, and two of the boys, George Watson and Charlie Star, told of tricks they had seen a dog do in a circus.
“We’ll teach Patter them,” decided Bunny.
One of these tricks was to take a piece of wood in his mouth, the wood being fastened to a string and the string to a bell that was hung on the fence. When Patter thus pulled the stick he made the bell ring.