“What’s that?” asked Russ, looking up.
“It was Rose,” answered Laddie. “I guess——”
The loud barking of a dog interrupted him, and Rose cried again:
“Oh, Russ, come and drive him away!”
CHAPTER VIII
IN THE HAY
Russ looked up from the dam he was making for the water wheel. He could not see Rose. Nor could Laddie, who was helping his brother make the little mill pond. But Rose kept on yelling and the dog kept on barking.
“Oh, somebody please come!” cried Rose.
“I’m coming!” shouted Russ.
He leaped up, followed by Laddie, and, as they turned around a clump of bushes and looked down the brook they saw Rose standing with her back against a big tree while in front of her, leaping about and barking loudly, was a large brown dog.
“Oh, Russ! Russ!” begged his sister, as she caught sight of him and Laddie. “Come and drive this dog away! He wants to bite me!”