"And we'll take Whisker, our goat, and Snap and Snoop," said Flossie, "and my dolls and the bugs that go around and around and around and——"
"You'll have a regular menagerie!" said Nan.
"We'll have some fun, anyhow," cried Freddie. "I wonder if we could hitch Snap and Whisker up together and make a team?"
"Let's try," suggested Bert. "Come on, Freddie, we'll find our dog."
But when they called Snap he did not come running in from the yard or barn as he had always done before. Bert and Freddie called, but there was no answering bark.
"Where is Snap, Dinah?" asked Bert, when a search about the house did not show the missing dog.
"I done seed him heah about half an hour ago," said the colored cook, "an' den, all to oncet, I didn't see him ag'in. I wonder if dat ole peddler could hab took him?" she asked, speaking half to herself.
Bert and Freddie looked at one another in surprise. Where was Snap?