By and by when Sly Foot had run away, Curly-Tail set up a shout, for the Fourteen Little Darling Dogs were coming to meet them.
They cried,
“Hurrah, hurrah, this is very jolly,
Hurrah, hurrah, for our own dear Polly.”
Pedro replied,
“I will bite off your ears, you little dears,
And peck out the eyes of the next one who cries, ‘POLLY’!”
Curly-Tail had once been to school, and learned a real yell, so he cried,
“What’s the matter with Pedro?