Bunny Brown and his sister Sue and their trick dog

by Laura Lee Hope

“Oh, he’s doing the trick! He’s doing the trick!” cried Bunny.

“He’s fine at it!” cried Charlie.

“The best dog I ever saw, even if he won’t bring sticks from the brook,” admitted George. “Now we’ll see if we can’t get Wango to sit in the trapeze with Patter.”

The monkey knew and liked the boys, who were kind to him, so he did not make a fuss when they lifted him up beside Patter. Then the monkey and dog swung to and fro on the same carpet-covered trapeze board.

“The next thing to do is to teach Wango to jump up the way Patter does,” suggested George. “We’ll do this next.”

So they began on that part of the trick which Bunny and his chums hoped to produce later in some sort of show, or circus.

“It would be great if we could have this at the church fair,” suggested Harry.

“I guess it would make a lot of money for ’em,” said George.

“People would pay more to see tricks like this than they would to hear a lot of girls singing,” said Harry. “I hate girls’ singing, anyhow.”

“So do I,” said Bunny.