Bunny Brown and his sister Sue and their trick dog

by Laura Lee Hope

“I’ll have to put him down on the floor again,” said Bunny.

He climbed down the ladder and then called to Patter. It was too much to expect the dog to go down the ladder as he had climbed up, so Bunny made a pile of hay on the floor near where he stood.

“Come on, Patter! Come on down!” called Bunny.

The dog whined a little, looked about as if to find another way to join his beloved young master, and then leaped down to the pile of hay. Of course he wasn’t hurt.

“You stay there and I’ll call him to climb up here again,” suggested Charlie.

But Patter would not climb the ladder on the invitation of any of the other boys. He remained at Bunny’s side.

“You’ll have to come up and call him,” said Harry.

“I guess I will,” agreed Bunny.

He started up the ladder, and Patter whined to see him go. But Bunny called back:

“You’ll soon be up with me, Patter!”