After a while, when it was seen that few more were coming in with tickets, Patter was allowed to give up his basket, for they did not want to tire him by making him sit up too long. But he had proved a great “attraction,” as a Bellemere newspaper said the next day.
Bunny and his chums, after eating the cleanest of the cakes that had been toppled to the floor, went off by themselves into a side room and began putting Patter through some of his tricks.
“Let’s get the cat again and see if he’ll let her get up on his back,” suggested Charlie. “If he’s going to do it in our show we’d better have him practice.”
“That’s a good idea,” said Bunny Brown.
Sue brought in Whitefeet, and the dog and cat resumed friendship at once, the cat even rubbing up against Patter.
Bunny put the cat on the dog’s back. She curled up there as if she liked the warm, shaggy coat of hair, and Patter walked around again with Whitefeet on his back.
“Don’t make her do it too long or she’ll get tired and cross,” suggested Sue. So they gave her back the little cat, and then the boys got Patter to do some of the tricks he had often done for them as they romped through the fields.
As the boys were doing this Mr. Martin, one of the men who was helping with the fair, looked into the room and saw Patter marching around like a soldier, with a stick over his shoulder.
“That’s pretty good,” said Mr. Martin. “Will your dog do tricks before an audience, Bunny?”
“I guess he will, yes, sir.”