"About doctoring! Why? Is Mr. Jason ill?"
"No, but I've got a badly hurt boy up at my house. He's all scratched up."
"Has he been picking berries?" asked Bunny.
"No. They're worse scratches than that. Big, deep ones on his face, hands and shoulders. I've bandaged him as best I could, and sent Mr. Jason for the doctor; but I was wondering if you could do anything until Dr. Fandon came."
"A scratched boy?" repeated Mr. Brown slowly. "What scratched him?"
"A great big lion, he says!" exclaimed Mrs. Jason. "I declare I'm so excited I don't know what to do!" and she sat down on a stool Mrs. Brown placed for her near the back steps of the automobile.
CHAPTER XXIV
THE BARKING DOG
Mr. and Mrs. Brown, not to say Bunny, Sue and Uncle Tad, were very, very much surprised when Mrs. Jason said the boy had been scratched by a lion.