“I’m afraid it won’t be safe for you children to go out with Toby alone any more. He is too frisky.”
“Oh, I guess it will wear off,” said Bunker Blue. “You see, he hasn’t had much exercise since he came back from the farm. He’ll be all right.”
And Toby was, for he did not again run away—at least not for a long time. Daddy Brown said Patter was a very smart dog to stop a runaway as he did. They were talking about it after supper, and then Mrs. Brown asked:
“Did you hear anything more about the poor man in the hospital?”
“No, except that he says his name is Jason Stern, and he says he has no friends left to help him unless he can find Jim Denton, the circus owner,” replied Mr. Brown. “But no one seems to know where Jim Denton is, and Mr. Stern is too ill to tell the hospital folks very much. I think the old man came to the wrong town. He must mean some other Bellemere; there are a lot of them in this country. Well, I’ll go to see him again soon when he gets a little better.”
Bunny Brown and his sister Sue continued to have a lot of fun with the trick dog and their pony. One day some of his boy chums came over to see Bunny.
“Say,” asked Charlie Star, “when are we going to have that show you were talking of, Bunny?”
“That’s right,” added Harry Bentley. “We want to get up a show with your trick dog and your pony. We can get some other animals, too.”
“All right,” agreed Bunny. “Let’s go out to our barn now and talk about it. If we have the show it will be in our barn.”
To this the other boys agreed, and they strolled out to the barn where in times past they had had many good times.