"Oh, look at Dix! He's chasing a cat!"
Something big and gray flashed over the ground. Dix ran for it, and his teeth seemed to close on one of the hind legs of the animal. Then the gray animal ran up a tree, and Dix raced about at the foot, barking and whining, while Splash left the place where he was rolling on the grass, to come to see what the matter was.
CHAPTER XIV
THE MEDICINE SHOW
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue ran toward the tree up which Dix had chased the gray creature. The dog was greatly excited, and at once Splash joined in, too. Though it is very likely Splash did not in the least know what he was barking at.
Dogs are like that, you know. When one hears another bark it will join in, and then will come a third and maybe a fourth until every dog in the block is barking, and only the first one may know why, and perhaps even he does not.
"Oh, I hope he didn't hurt that pussy," said Sue.
"Maybe it wasn't a pussy," suggested Bunny.
"What makes you say that?" demanded Sue. "Didn't you see something gray run across the grass, and didn't Dix run after it?"