Anyhow Splash howled and tried to swing around so he could bite the gobbler, but the big bird kept out of reach.
"Oh, what can we do?" asked Sue.
"Get sticks and beat the gobbler!" cried Tom.
"No, wait. I know a better way," said Bunny.
"What?" asked his sister.
"I'll show you," answered the little boy. He had seen on the green lawn of the farmhouse a water hose. It was attached to a faucet near the ground and the water came from a big tank on the house into which it was pumped by a gasolene engine.
Bunny ran to the hose. The water was turned off at the nozzle, but it was the same kind of nozzle as the one on the Brown's hose at home, so Bunny knew how to work it.
In an instant he turned the nozzle, and aimed the hose at the turkey which still had hold of the poor dog's tail.
All over the turkey splashed the water, and as the big bird tried to gobble, and keep hold of Splash's tail at the same time, and as the water went down its throat, the noise, instead of "Gobble-obble-obble," sounded like "Gurgle-urgle-urgle."
"There! Take that!" cried Bunny squirting the water over the turkey. "That will make you stop pulling dogs' tails, I guess."