Frankie was very proud of his power over the dog, and was continually showing his father, mother, and Edward how quickly she understood and obeyed him.
At last it came time for the boy to go to bed.
He brought a shawl to wrap his baby in, and said he should take her to bed with him as Colonel Jameson did. But Eddy objected at once.
"I know just how it will be," he said; "Tony will bark and wake us, and Frankie is such a sleepy head that he will not get up to attend to her, and I shall have all the trouble with her."
"No, no!" exclaimed Frankie; "I'll promise to keep her my side, and take all the care of her."
Mrs. Colvin, however, thought it best to have a bed made for Tony in the corner of the room, where she lay, wrapped in the shawl, very quietly till morning.
The next day, when Frankie was getting ready for school, he told his mother he was going to take Tony into the seat with him.
"I am afraid your teacher will object, my dear," she said, "and the dog will take your mind from your studies."
But the boy pleaded very earnestly that he might take her once. "I want to show Willie Miles and George Holmes how she obeys me," he exclaimed.
He came home at noon, just as his mother expected, very indignant because the boys had tried to stone his pet.